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1133291

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2019
	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	Hospitals: Parking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the annual cost to the public purse of abolishing parking fees for staff at NHS hospitals.
	tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
	uin	266788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>The level and appropriateness of car parking charges at National Health Service sites for staff is the responsibility of the local NHS trust. We have published the NHS Car Parking Principles which clearly state that concessions should be offered to groups who most need help, such as staff who cannot travel by public transport due to their shift pattern.</p><p>However, given it is the responsibility of the local NHS trust, the Department has no jurisdiction to reduce or eliminate hospital car parking charges for nurses, doctors and essential healthcare workers.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 27/06/2019 13:07:16 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

1132457

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2019
	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	Smoking: Health Education
	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 his Department is taking to include the vaping industry in the annual Stoptober campaign; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
	uin	265443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) is directed under the Tobacco Control Plan for England to include within quit smoking campaigns messages about the relative safety of e-cigarettes and to continue to provide smokers and the public with clear, evidence based and accurate information on the relative harm of nicotine, e-cigarettes, other nicotine delivery systems and smoked tobacco, to enable informed decision-making.</p><p>PHE has worked with the Independent British Vape Trade Association and its members to reassure smokers about the relative safety of e-cigarettes and to encourage smokers to switch.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 27/06/2019 15:17:07 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

1132459

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2019
	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	Smoking: Health Education
	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 merits of working with representatives of the vaping industry to help spread the Public Health England findings that e-cigarettes are 95 per cent less harmful than traditional cigarettes; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
	uin	265445
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) is directed under the Tobacco Control Plan for England to include within quit smoking campaigns messages about the relative safety of e-cigarettes and to continue to provide smokers and the public with clear, evidence based and accurate information on the relative harm of nicotine, e-cigarettes, other nicotine delivery systems and smoked tobacco, to enable informed decision-making.</p><p>PHE has worked with the Independent British Vape Trade Association and its members to reassure smokers about the relative safety of e-cigarettes and to encourage smokers to switch. This has broadened PHE’s reach to the audience of smokers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 27/06/2019 15:14:45 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans