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982704

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Caribbean: Hurricanes and Tornadoes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 18 September 2018 to Question 173559 on Caribbean: Hurricanes and Tornadoes, what proportion of that £196 million spent in September 2017 on Caribbean hurricane relief was used to support British Overseas Territories.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	176229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>£72m was committed to help the Overseas Territories. This funding delivered the UK Government’s immediate response and support for early recovery priorities in the three affected territories of Anguilla, British Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands. Further to this, the Prime Minister committed a further £70m for reconstruction efforts and up to £300m of UK Government loan guarantees.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 15/10/2018 14:33:29 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

947507

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing for a route whereby schools in difficulty which have been converted to academy status can revert to local authority control; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	168014
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>We have no plans to consider returning schools back to local authorities.</p><p>Indeed, as of March 2018, over half a million pupils now study in sponsored academies that are rated Good or Outstanding; they typically replaced underperforming maintained schools.</p><p>The department firmly believe that becoming an academy can bring enormous benefits to schools and their pupils; coming together in a multi-academy trust, sharing expertise, working collaboratively, driving improvements.</p><p>Hundreds of schools every year continue to voluntarily choose to become an academy and join a multi academy trust.</p><p>The department is working on a range of methods and tools for building trust capacity and assessing risk.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/09/2018 09:42:34 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

914997

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Gibraltar: Territorial Waters
	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 preserve the integrity of UK sovereign waters around Gibraltar.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	148737
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2018 answer text <p>We are confident of UK sovereignty over the whole of Gibraltar, including British Gibraltar Territorial Waters. The Royal Navy continues to challenge all incursions by State vessels into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters, and the FCO supports this by making formal diplomatic protests to the relevant authorities.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 06/06/2018 15:13:33 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

872374

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2018
	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, how many people have accessed the Cancer Recovery Package in the last 12 months; and what proportion of those people had blood cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	134288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. NHS England is currently developing plans for national data collection.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/03/2018 14:00:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

836018

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2018
	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	Blood Cancer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether diagnostic centres established as a result of the Cancer Strategy for England take specific account of blood cancer; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	126373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The wave two of the Accelerate, Coordination and Evaluation (ACE) programme is testing a new multi-disciplinary diagnostic centre approach to diagnosing patients with vague or unclear but concerning symptoms, often characteristic of hard to diagnose cancers like blood cancers. This approach aims to ensure that patients can receive a suite of tests, reducing the risk that patients receive multiple different referrals for the same problem. The ACE programme has established ten pilot Rapid Diagnostic Assessment Centres across five areas of the country.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 15:33:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

857763

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the CPS is taking to strengthen (a) cross-agency and (b) international joint working in child abuse cases.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	131664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The use of technology means that there are more cases of child abuse that have an international element. Recent successful prosecutions in this field have seen early engagement between the CPS and the police, followed by close collaboration with our overseas prosecutors and international organisations, particularly the National Crime Agency.</p><p> </p><p>Cases of online abuse have highlighted the importance of using expert evidence to demonstrate the true impact on victims, which then has a direct impact on sentence.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/03/2018 09:19:22 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

917381

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2018
	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	Ibrutinib
	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 received Ibrutinib on the NHS for the treatment of relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia since January 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	150007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not available. The number of patients registered to receive treatment with ibrutinib for relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia between 1 January 2017 and 31 May 2018 was 976. Patients registered to receive a treatment do not then necessarily go on to receive treatment with a drug.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/06/2018 15:32:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

836022

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2018
	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	Blood Cancer
	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 NHS specialist haematological cancer posts have been vacant in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	126377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>In December Health Education England published a cancer workforce plan for England which sets out how the National Health Service will ensure it has access to the cancer workforce it needs to 2021. The cancer workforce plan is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Cancer%20Workforce%20Strategy%20Graphs%20and%20tables%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Cancer%20Workforce%20Strategy%20Graphs%20and%20tables%20FINAL.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 15:37:09 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

846108

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Personal Income: Crawley
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if will make an assessment of the effect of recent increases in the National Living Wage and the personal allowance on the personal incomes of residents of Crawley.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	128809
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting working families and ensuring they retain more of what they earn. Following increases to the personal allowance threshold and National Living Wage that will come into effect across the UK from April, a full-time worker earning the National Living Wage in Crawley will be taking home over £3,800 more per year after tax compared to a full-time minimum wage worker in 2010.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 01/03/2018 14:40:08 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

872272

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2018
	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	Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia: 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, what assessment he has made of the availability of treatments for patients diagnosed with Refractory B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	134186
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>The following treatments are routinely available, having undergone Technical Appraisals by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). They were previously accessible through the Cancer Drugs Fund.</p><p> </p><p>- Blinatumomab for relapsed refractory (r/r) Philadelphia negative acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL); and</p><p>- Ponatinib for Philadelphia positive ALL in patients in whom imatinib is not clinically appropriate (which might cover some r/r).</p><p> </p><p>The following treatments are currently under consideration by NICE:</p><p> </p><p>- CAR-T (Tisagenlecleucel-T and also Axicabtagene ciloleucel) for previously treated B-cell ALL in people aged 3 to 21 at initial diagnosis;</p><p>- Inotuzumab ozogamicin for treating r/r ALL; and</p><p>- Blinatumomab in other extended indications in ALL.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, the following treatments are currently accessible through the Cancer Drugs Fund.</p><p> </p><p>- Clofarabine for treating ALL in children after two therapies; and</p><p>- Nelarabine for treating ALL after two therapies.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number and proportion of patients with refractory B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia who have been unable to access treatments for that condition is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 134187 question first answered 03/04/2018 13:25:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith