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1108757

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Nurses: Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions she has had with the permanent secretary for health in the Northern Ireland Executive on ensuring the equalisation of pay rates for nurses in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the rest of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	239234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>In November 2018, the Department of Health in Northern Ireland applied the English NHS pay settlement to Northern Ireland, representing a 3% or more uplift to staff on most pay scales.</p><p>As health is devolved, nurses pay in Northern Ireland is a matter for the Department of Health.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 09/04/2019 10:12:08 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1104705

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Obesity: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate she has made of the number of people with obesity in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) each Clinical Commissioning Group in Northern Ireland by (i) age and (ii) gender in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	236377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department of Health commissioned a 2017-18 Health Study in Northern Ireland. This reported that 64% of adults aged 16+ were either overweight (37%) or obese (27%). The full findings of the report are available on the Department of Health’s website.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s current obesity prevention framework ‘<em>A Fitter Future for All 2012-2022’</em> recognises the need to improve food and nutrition and encourage physical activity among the population to reduce the prevalence of obesity. This framework is also available on the Department’s website.</p><p> </p><p>Northern Ireland does not use Clinical Commissioning Groups, and a tier three and tier four management service is not currently commissioned in NI. The NI Department of Health has established a task and finish group to explore options for the development of a regional prototype bariatric service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 236378 236379 question first answered 28/03/2019 15:53:19 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1104706

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Obesity: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps her Department is taking to tackle regional differences in (a) adult and (b) childhood obesity in Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	236378
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department of Health commissioned a 2017-18 Health Study in Northern Ireland. This reported that 64% of adults aged 16+ were either overweight (37%) or obese (27%). The full findings of the report are available on the Department of Health’s website.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s current obesity prevention framework ‘<em>A Fitter Future for All 2012-2022’</em> recognises the need to improve food and nutrition and encourage physical activity among the population to reduce the prevalence of obesity. This framework is also available on the Department’s website.</p><p> </p><p>Northern Ireland does not use Clinical Commissioning Groups, and a tier three and tier four management service is not currently commissioned in NI. The NI Department of Health has established a task and finish group to explore options for the development of a regional prototype bariatric service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 236377 236379 question first answered 28/03/2019 15:53:19 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1104707

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Obesity: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which Clinical Commissioning Groups in Northern Ireland provide a (a) tier three and (b) tier four weight management service.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	236379
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department of Health commissioned a 2017-18 Health Study in Northern Ireland. This reported that 64% of adults aged 16+ were either overweight (37%) or obese (27%). The full findings of the report are available on the Department of Health’s website.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s current obesity prevention framework ‘<em>A Fitter Future for All 2012-2022’</em> recognises the need to improve food and nutrition and encourage physical activity among the population to reduce the prevalence of obesity. This framework is also available on the Department’s website.</p><p> </p><p>Northern Ireland does not use Clinical Commissioning Groups, and a tier three and tier four management service is not currently commissioned in NI. The NI Department of Health has established a task and finish group to explore options for the development of a regional prototype bariatric service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 236377 236378 question first answered 28/03/2019 15:53:19 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon