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1002076

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the announcement in Budget 2018, what his Department's timescale is for implementing school-based mental health support teams; and by what date he plans for mental health support teams to be extended across the country.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	188023
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Work on developing mental health support teams for schools forms part of the work to implement the proposals set out in the Green Paper, ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision’. The first wave of recruitment for the Educational Mental Health Practitioners who will form part of these teams is now under way and 210 people will take their places on specialist training courses from January 2019. These trainees will start working in schools during 2019. The initial local areas, or trailblazer sites, that will trial the Green Paper proposals will be announced by the end of the year. As stated in the Green Paper, we plan to roll out the teams to between a fifth and a quarter of the country by 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/11/2018 15:47:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1149333

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Epilepsy: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether anti-epileptic drugs are exempted from serious shortage protocols; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the use of such protocols on (a) people with learning disabilities and (b) their families in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>While Serious Shortage Protocols (SSP) in England have the scope to cover all medicines and appliances that are on a National Health Service prescription in primary care, including anti-epileptic drugs, it is clear that an SSP for therapeutic or generic equivalents will not necessarily be suitable for all medicines and patients. For example, where medicines need to be prescribed by brand for clinical reasons, which is the case for epilepsy medication.</p><p>Any protocol would only be introduced if clinicians with expertise in the relevant area think it is appropriate. Pharmacists will have to use their professional judgment as to whether supplying against the protocol rather than the prescription is appropriate or the patient should be referred to their prescriber.</p><p>The legislation enabling Ministers to issue SSPs was not introduced as a European Union exit measure alone but as a business-as-usual measure that can be used before and after our exit from the EU.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/10/2019 13:07:33 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1039001

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2019
	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	Epilepsy: Drugs
	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 adequacy of the availability of essential epilepsy medicines imported from the EU in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	207180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>We understand that epilepsy medicines are vitally important to many people in this country. Our contingency plans aim to ensure that the supply of epilepsy medicines and other essential medicines to patients is not disrupted in all European Union exit scenarios, including a ‘no deal’ exit.</p><p> </p><p>That is why on 23 August 2018, the Department wrote to all pharmaceutical companies that supply prescription only medicines and pharmacy medicines to the United Kingdom that come from, or via, the EU or European Economic Area (EEA) asking them to ensure a minimum of six weeks additional supply in the UK, over and above existing business-as-usual buffer stocks, by 29 March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>We followed that up on 7 December 2018 when the Department wrote to pharmaceutical companies that supply licensed medicines to the UK from or via the EU/EEA, and/or manufacture medicines in the UK, informing them of the updated reasonable worst-case scenario border planning assumptions and asking them about their current transportation routes and their ability to re-route their supply chains if they currently rely on Dover and/or Folkestone.</p><p> </p><p>In response to those communications we have received very good engagement from industry, including companies supplying epilepsy medicines to the UK, who share our aims of ensuring continuity of medicines supply for patients is maintained and able to cope with any potential delays at the border that may arise in the short term in the event of a ‘no deal’ EU exit.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 15/01/2019 15:53:16 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1137560

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2019
	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	Sexually Transmitted Infections
	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 his Department has made of the correlation between reductions to public health funding and increases in rates of syphilis and gonorrhoea.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	274471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>We estimate that increases in rates of syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia are due to a number of factors. These include increases in both the number of people attending sexual health services and the number of tests for sexually transmitted infections. Public Health England has advised that other factors include, better detection of infection and behavioural changes such as an increase in partner numbers and condomless sex, as well as, for some men who have sex with men, ‘chemsex’ and group sex facilitated by geosocial networking applications.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities will receive £3.1 billion in 2019/20, ring-fenced exclusively for use on public health, including sexual health. We are investing over £16 billion in local authority public health services over the five years of the 2015 Spending Review until 2020/21. It is for individual local authorities to decide their spending priorities based on an assessment of local need, including the need for sexual health services taking account of their statutory duties.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are required by regulations to provide comprehensive open access sexual health services, including provision for sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment and contraception.</p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics show that more people are now accessing sexual health services. Attendances have increased by 7% between 2017 and 2018 (from 3,337,677 to 3,561,548). This continues the trend of increases in attendances seen over the past five years. To help manage the overall increase in demand, local authorities are increasingly commissioning online services to manage lower risk and asymptomatic patients. These services have the potential to reach groups not currently engaged with clinic services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 11/07/2019 13:19:43 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1002086

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Schools
	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 number of additional (a) child and adolescent psychiatrists, (b) psychotherapists and (c) mental health nurses that will be required to deliver school-based mental health support teams throughout England.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	188026
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>We are setting up new Mental Health Support Teams to deliver mental health interventions for those with mild to moderate needs in or close to schools and colleges, referring those with more severe needs on to specialist services. The teams will support and join up with existing professionals such as educational psychologists, school nurses and health visitors. We expect the teams to comprise a mix of more junior and more senior staff; there will be funding available to support the teams and will also support the cost of supervision from qualified staff in National Health Service children’s mental health services. There will also be a new role, Educational Mental Health Practitioner, with the recruitment for this role currently underway and 210 places available across the country.</p><p> </p><p>There are no ready-made answers about the overall make-up of teams and how they should operate, and we are clear that we do not want to impose a model that does not take account of the existing local context. It will therefore be important to design national roll-out on the basis of the experience from the trailblazer programme. The trailblazer sites will be announced shortly.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/11/2018 15:37:07 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1002087

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
	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 paragraph 5.10 of the Budget 2018 Red Book, what the (a) composition and (b) structure will be of the children and young people’s mental health crisis teams.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	188027
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>We are not currently able to provide the details requested about the composition and structure of the children and young people’s mental health crisis teams.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has asked the National Health Service to develop a long-term plan which will set out a vision for the health service and we have been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan. The 2018 Budget set out some aspects of what the long-term plan will contain, and further details will follow when the plan is published.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/11/2018 15:43:47 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

914963

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	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	Cancer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Cancer Strategy for England; and whether his Department plans to implement those recommendations by 2020.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	148636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2018 answer text <p>We are in year three of the five year strategy and we are on track to deliver it by 2020. We have made rapid progress in a number of key and high-impact areas, as set out in our last progress report, published in October 2017 at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/national-cancer-transformation-programme-2016-17-progress.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/national-cancer-transformation-programme-2016-17-progress.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS England publishes yearly progress reports on implementation progress. The next progress report is due to be published in autumn 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Government and NHS England remain committed to supporting people living with and beyond cancer. Decisions on a new strategy following implementation of the current Cancer Strategy for England by 2020 will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 148637 question first answered 06/06/2018 15:54:32 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

914965

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	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	Cancer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to support people living with cancer after 2020.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	148637
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2018 answer text <p>We are in year three of the five year strategy and we are on track to deliver it by 2020. We have made rapid progress in a number of key and high-impact areas, as set out in our last progress report, published in October 2017 at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/national-cancer-transformation-programme-2016-17-progress.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/national-cancer-transformation-programme-2016-17-progress.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS England publishes yearly progress reports on implementation progress. The next progress report is due to be published in autumn 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Government and NHS England remain committed to supporting people living with and beyond cancer. Decisions on a new strategy following implementation of the current Cancer Strategy for England by 2020 will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 148636 question first answered 06/06/2018 15:54:32 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1137564

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2019
	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	Genito-urinary Medicine and HIV Infection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Prevention Green Paper will include (a) commitments on additional resources to tackle HIV and (b) targets to improve sexual health.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	274473
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>We are considering a range of policy options for the Green Paper and will be mindful of HIV and sexual health.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 11/07/2019 13:32:41 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1137563

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2019
	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	Preventive Medicine: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Green Paper on Prevention will include and assessment of the level of funding required to implement the contents of that Green Paper.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	274472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>We are considering a number of policy options for the Prevention Green Paper and will be mindful of the level of funding that may be required for their implementation.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 11/07/2019 13:32:12 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb