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65009

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Statins: Prescriptions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the amount of statins prescribed through the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	203214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>There are no current plans to reduce the amount of statins prescribed through the National Health Service.</p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 08/07/2014 14:58:13 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

65014

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Parkinson's Disease
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) British Medical Association and (b) Parkinson's Disease Society on possible links between Parkinson's disease and stomach upsets and illness.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	203211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>No recent discussions have taken place between Ministers and either the British Medical Association or Parkinson's Disease Society on possible links between Parkinson's disease and stomach upsets and illness.</p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 08/07/2014 15:07:09 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

65013

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Diseases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the UK have been diagnosed with (a) allergies, (b) asthma and (c) eczema in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	203210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>Annual incidence data for allergies, asthma and eczema is not collected.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England's service specification for specialised allergy includes an estimate of 20 million people in the United Kingdom being affected by allergenic disease at some point in their lives. The severe asthma service specification includes an estimate of more than 5 million for the number in the UK affected by asthma.</p><p> </p><p>Atopic eczema is the most common form of the condition, and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence clinical guidance <em>Frequency of application of topical corticosteroids for atopic eczema</em>, published in 2004, suggests that it may affect 15–20% of school-age children and 2–10% of adults.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 08/07/2014 14:48:33 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon