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1225571

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2020
	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	Hepatitis: Disease Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Public Health England’s 2019 report Shooting Up: Infections among people who inject drugs in the UK, what steps he is taking to implement its recommendation on reducing the number of new hepatitis C infections through improved harm reduction approaches.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	75302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2020 answer text The Public Health England (PHE) 2019 report ‘Shooting up’ suggests that harm reduction interventions for people who inject drugs, including access to sterile injecting equipment and effective drug dependence treatment, can prevent and control hepatitis C virus among this group<p /><p /><p> </p><p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing local drug needs and commissioning prevention, treatment and harm reduction services and interventions, which include needle exchange provision.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with PHE to review the harm reduction activity that is currently available.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 05/08/2020 11:22:14 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 40382 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1349518

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2021
	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	Hepatitis: Disease Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Government plans to work with relevant stakeholders towards achieving Hepatitis C elimination following the abolition of Public Health England.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	38399
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>The national hepatitis C elimination team at NHS England continues to work with a full range of partners to eliminate hepatitis C in England by the World Health Organization’s target of 2030. The new UK Health Security Agency and Office for Health Promotion. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, clinicians, pharmaceutical industry partners, other Government Departments, the third sector and those with lived experience are participating in this programme.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 06/09/2021 12:02:13 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1349519

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2021
	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	Hepatitis: Disease Control
	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 help ensure that Hepatitis C elimination is prioritised as part of integrated care systems' plans from April 2022 in support of the national Hepatitis C elimination programme.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	38400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>The hepatitis C elimination programme is currently managed by a specialist team at NHS England and NHS Improvement. Policy, interventions, and funding are developed and delivered through 22 nationally commissioned local clinical teams or Operational Delivery Networks. The national team work collaboratively with both regional teams and local systems to ensure the delivery and oversight of diagnostic and treatment pathways at a local level. As integrated care systems become operational, subject to the passage of legislation, the programme will work with them to ensure that all opportunities to identify and support patients are realised.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 06/09/2021 11:50:01 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1670131

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2023
	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	Hepatitis: Disease Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 28 March (HL6760), what steps they have taken in support of preparation for the maintenance phase of hepatitis elimination.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
	uin	HL311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) supports and monitors progress towards the World Health Organisation goal of eliminating hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a major public health threat by 2030. As part of disease surveillance, UKHSA monitors HCV prevention, testing, diagnoses and treatment in England.</p><p>Work to support the elimination maintenance phase is currently being developed with multiple stakeholders including NHS England Specialised Commissioning, integrated care boards, the Department, and UKHSA.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 28/11/2023 17:25:58 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1367440

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2021
	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	Hepatitis: Disease Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer to Question 38398 on 6 September 2021 on Hepatitis: Disease Control, if he will make it his policy to support NHS England and Improvement’s goal to eliminate Hepatitis C by 2025.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	72571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government is supporting NHS England and NHS Improvement to deliver the hepatitis C elimination programme in England and the goal to eliminate hepatitis C by 2025.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 10/01/2022 13:28:40 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1624315

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2023
	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	Hepatitis: Disease Control
	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 he has for the maintenance phase of hepatitis C elimination once England has reached the World Health Organization elimination metrics.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	183081
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2023 answer text <p>Significant progress has been made in the effort to eliminate Hepatitis C (HCV) in England. NHS England has publicly committed to the elimination of HCV in England in advance of the World Health Organization’s target of 2030, aiming to eliminate by 2025.</p><p>Work to support the elimination maintenance phase is currently being developed. It will involve multiple stakeholders including NHS England Specialised Commissioning, integrated care boards (ICBs), the Department, and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). In addition, commissioning arrangements for HCV elimination are expected to be devolved to local levels, with ICBs managing funding for issues such as testing and treatment. UKHSA will continue to monitor maintenance of elimination through routine surveillance data.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 05/05/2023 09:26:09 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1606567

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2023
	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	Hepatitis: Disease Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they (1) have developed, or (2) intend to put in place, for the maintenance phase of Hepatitis C elimination once England has reached the World Health Organisation elimination metrics.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
	uin	HL6760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>Significant progress has been made in the effort to eliminate Hepatitis C (HCV) in England and NHS England has publicly committed to the elimination of HCV in England by financial year 2025/26.</p><p> </p><p>Work to support the elimination maintenance phase is currently being developed. It will involve multiple stakeholders including NHS England Specialised Commissioning, integrated care boards (ICBs), the Department, and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). In addition, commissioning arrangements for HCV elimination are expected to be devolved to local levels, with ICBs managing funding for issues such as testing. UKHSA will continue to monitor maintenance of elimination through routine surveillance data.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 28/03/2023 14:28:06 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1606568

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2023
	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	Hepatitis: Disease Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the HCVAction report Taking the initiative: how England is eliminating Hepatitis C, published on 21 February, what assessment they have made of (1) the effectiveness of peer-to-peer support workers and volunteers with lived experience in combating Hepatitis C, and (2) the lessons for the other areas of healthcare from the Hepatitis C peer programme.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
	uin	HL6761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>Peer programmes are a well embedded and demonstrably effective part of NHS England’s Hepatitis C (HCV) Elimination Programme. Almost every elimination initiative that NHS England manages and commissions HCV Operational Delivery Networks to provide, at local and sub-regional levels, has peer involvement. NHS England consistently finds that people with lived experience are excellent advocates and are crucial in developing therapeutic alliances to support people into testing and treatment who may have felt excluded from traditional healthcare and other settings.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to review opportunities for using peer-to-peer support workers and volunteers with lived experience to support other areas of healthcare.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 28/03/2023 14:27:05 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1347667

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2021
	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	Hepatitis: Disease Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what annual budget has been allocated by his Department to the elimination of Hepatitis C in each of the last five years; how much of that budget has been used since the commencement of the NHSE Hepatitis C elimination tender; and whether NHS England plans to ringfence that same amount of funding over the next four years to ensure elimination of that disease by 2025 in England.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	34477
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/08/2021 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement's national hepatitis C elimination programme’s total annual elimination initiative’s expenditure, for which information is available, is as follows:</p><p>- 2021/22 - £20 million (budgeted);</p><p>- 2020/21 - £15 million; and</p><p>- 2019/20 - £9 million.</p><p>Prior to 2019/20, there was no dedicated elimination initiative funding. Regions were funded based on expenditure incurred by their providers and allocated on a monthly basis. NHS England and NHS Improvement have confirmed the budget provided each year has allowed the needs of the elimination programme to be fully met and expects the required budget to be made available for the duration of the programme.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 27/08/2021 09:23:02 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 16056 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1349517

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2021
	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	Hepatitis: Disease Control
	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 make it his policy to eliminate Hepatitis C in by 2025 in line with the elimination goals of the World Health Organisation.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	38398
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement have announced a programme to eliminate hepatitis C in England by 2025 and meet the World Health Organization’s target of 2030.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 06/09/2021 11:53:55 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris