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1123564

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2019
	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	Preventive Medicine
	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 the Prevention is better than cure vision published by his Department in November 2018, whether the forthcoming prevention Green Paper will include oral health.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	248665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>We are considering a number of policy options for the prevention green paper and will be mindful of oral health opportunities.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 08/05/2019 14:01:52 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1127781

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Social Prescribing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on social prescribing.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	257061
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>‘Prevention is better than cure’, published by the Department in November 2018, highlighted the important role social prescribing can play in reducing people’s isolation and improving levels of activity.</p><p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England has committed to deliver at least £4.5 billion of new investment in primary medical and community health services over the next five years. Part of this investment will support the recruitment of over 1,000 trained social prescribing link workers - in place by the end of 2020/21 rising further by 2023/24, with the aim that over 900,000 people are able to be referred to social prescribing schemes by then.</p><p>The Prevention document and the Long Term Plan can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevention-is-better-than-cure-our-vision-to-help-you-live-well-for-longer" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevention-is-better-than-cure-our-vision-to-help-you-live-well-for-longer</a></p><p><a href="http://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-long-term-plan/" target="_blank">www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-long-term-plan/</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/05/2019 14:58:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1132427

	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	Genomics: Health Services
	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 patients have received whole genome sequencing through the NHS; and how many of those patients had a type of blood cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	265508
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Health Service has committed to sequencing 500,000 whole genomes by 2023/24.</p><p>During 2019, the NHS will begin to offer whole genome sequencing (WGS) as part of clinical care for:</p><p>- Seriously ill children likely to have a rare genetic disorder;</p><p>- People with one of 21 rare conditions where current evidence supports early adoption of WGS as a diagnostic test; and</p><p>- People with specific types of cancer for which there is likely to be the greatest patient benefit from using WGS – children with cancer, sarcoma and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.</p><p> </p><p>As the price of whole genome sequencing falls and the evidence improves, we envisage that it will be extended to more conditions and therefore more patients.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 265509 265510 question first answered 20/06/2019 15:34:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1132428

	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	Genomics: Health Services
	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 patients he estimates will benefit from whole genome sequencing in (a) 2019 and (b) each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	265509
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Health Service has committed to sequencing 500,000 whole genomes by 2023/24.</p><p>During 2019, the NHS will begin to offer whole genome sequencing (WGS) as part of clinical care for:</p><p>- Seriously ill children likely to have a rare genetic disorder;</p><p>- People with one of 21 rare conditions where current evidence supports early adoption of WGS as a diagnostic test; and</p><p>- People with specific types of cancer for which there is likely to be the greatest patient benefit from using WGS – children with cancer, sarcoma and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.</p><p> </p><p>As the price of whole genome sequencing falls and the evidence improves, we envisage that it will be extended to more conditions and therefore more patients.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 265508 265510 question first answered 20/06/2019 15:34:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1132429

	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	Genomics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the NHS Genomic Medicine Service will begin performing whole genome sequencing.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	265510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Health Service has committed to sequencing 500,000 whole genomes by 2023/24.</p><p>During 2019, the NHS will begin to offer whole genome sequencing (WGS) as part of clinical care for:</p><p>- Seriously ill children likely to have a rare genetic disorder;</p><p>- People with one of 21 rare conditions where current evidence supports early adoption of WGS as a diagnostic test; and</p><p>- People with specific types of cancer for which there is likely to be the greatest patient benefit from using WGS – children with cancer, sarcoma and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.</p><p> </p><p>As the price of whole genome sequencing falls and the evidence improves, we envisage that it will be extended to more conditions and therefore more patients.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 265508 265509 question first answered 20/06/2019 15:34:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1132430

	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	Pathology: Vacancies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of vacancy is in histopathology departments.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	265511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>NHS Improvement publishes vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.</p><p>They do not specifically produce vacancy data for histopathology departments or any vacancy data for each National Health Service hospital or trust.</p><p>NHS Digital published the latest NHS Improvement vacancy data which can be found in the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/february-2015---march-2019-provisional-experimental-statistics" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/february-2015---march-2019-provisional-experimental-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 20/06/2019 13:12:02 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1136934

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2019
	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
	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 the July 2017 tobacco control plan for England, when the Government plans to announce a date for achieving its smokefree generation target of smoking prevalence at 5 per cent or below.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	273383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s vision, as set out in the Tobacco Control Plan for England published in 2017, is to create a smokefree generation by reducing adult smoking prevalence to 5% or below. The current smoking rates for England are 14.4%, the lowest on record. The Government has not yet committed to a date by which to achieve a smokefree generation but continues to keep progress on reducing prevalence under close review.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/07/2019 16:19:44 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1136935

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2019
	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 Services
	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 he is taking to ensure that tobacco companies have no involvement in (a) smoking cessation services and (b) public health campaigns.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	273384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom is a signatory to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The Government takes very seriously its treaty obligations, including the commitment under Article 5.3 to protect public health policies with respect to tobacco control from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry. It expects all public bodies to follow comply with the FCTC Secretariat’s guidance on this Article.</p><p>To remind the National Health Service of this commitment, NHS England issued a note to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in the CCG bulletin dated 26 July 2018. Public Health England (PHE) has also written to local authorities and Directors of Public Health advising against such partnerships, a message reiterated in the PHE blog. The blog is available to view at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/01/05/duncan-selbies-friday-message-5-january-2018/" target="_blank">https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/01/05/duncan-selbies-friday-message-5-january-2018/</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/07/2019 16:12:01 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1144677

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	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	NHS: Capital Investment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much capital funding has been (a) allocated to and (b) spent by (i) NHS foundation trusts and (ii) NHS trusts per capita in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	286728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>National Health Service capital expenditure by NHS providers is funded in large part through their ability to generate income via trading activity with Commissioners. This internally generated financing is supplemented by Departmental financing in the form of repayable capital loans and Public Dividend Capital (PDC) for specific strategic initiatives, for example sustainability and transformation partnerships funding; for investment to address pressures on urgent and emergency care over the winter period or for investment in strategic technology fields.</p><p>Details of these investments can be found in the annual report ‘Financial Assistance under Section 40 of the National Health Service Act 2006’, which is published alongside the Department’s Annual Report. This can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dhsc-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dhsc-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019</a></p><p>The following table provides detail of the outturn Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (CDEL) for foundation trusts and NHS trusts over the past five years.</p><p>It is not possible to provide this information ‘per capita’ as there is no fixed population or geographical boundary for any given hospital trust.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foundation Trust CDEL Outturn Expenditure (£,000s)</p></td><td><p>1,925,555</p></td><td><p>1,795,693</p></td><td><p>1,815,837</p></td><td><p>2,061,023</p></td><td><p>2,380,091</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Trust CDEL Outturn Expenditure (£,000s)</p></td><td><p>1,381,276</p></td><td><p>1,146,203</p></td><td><p>1,049,501</p></td><td><p>1,002,017</p></td><td><p>1,551,799</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total NHS Provider CDEL Outturn Expenditure (£,000s)</p></td><td><p>3,306,831</p></td><td><p>2,941,896</p></td><td><p>2,865,338</p></td><td><p>3,063,040</p></td><td><p>3,931,890</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 09/09/2019 14:54:15 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1144678

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	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	Medical Records: Databases
	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 (a) NHS trusts and (b) NHS foundation trusts have implemented an Electronic Patient Record system; and how many patients’ records are recorded on those systems.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	286729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital has advised that currently there are 71 National Health Service trusts and 108 NHS foundation trusts who have implemented an Electronic Patient Record System. NHS Digital does not routinely collect data on the overall number of patients’ records and therefore the number of patient’s records is not held on the Electronic Patient Record System.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 09/09/2019 16:30:47 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston