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1716845

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing a statement of principle that all services should be provided in-person where possible.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	25465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone has affordable access to public services, whether online or offline.</p><p>Departments are required by the Government's Service Standard to provide support via alternative channels for all their online services to all users, including disabled people, people with other legally protected characteristics, people who do not have access to the internet and/or lack the skills and/or confidence to use it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 17/05/2024 13:39:45 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1702377

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	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	Hormone Pregnancy Tests Expert Working Group
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it her policy to commission an independent review of the Commission on Human Medicines’ Expert Working Group’s report on Hormone Pregnancy Tests.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	902487
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>We remain hugely sympathetic to the families who believe that they have suffered as a result of using Hormone Pregnancy Tests. We have no plans to set up an independent review to examine the findings of the Expert Working Group. In the interests of transparency, all evidence collected and papers considered by the Expert Working Group were published in 2018, along with full minutes of its discussions. Details of conflicts of interests, and how these were managed, were also published.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 25/04/2024 11:23:26 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1698355

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2024
	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	Integrated Care Systems: Allergies and Nutrition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of each Integrated care systems having a (a) specialist allergy nurse and (b) dietitian.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	20254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>The majority of services for people living with allergies are commissioned locally through integrated care boards (ICBs), which are best placed to commission services according to local need. Specialised allergy services are provided for patients with severe and complex allergic conditions, or those who have common allergic conditions for which conventional management has failed and for whom specified specialist treatments are required. In 2023/24, these services are jointly commissioned by NHS England Specialised Commissioning and the ICBs, in line with the published Specialist Allergy Service Specification.</p><p>There is an established Clinical Reference Group (CRG), which is responsible for providing national clinical advice and leadership for specialised immunology and allergy services. The CRG uses its expertise to advise NHS England on the best ways to provide specialised services. This includes developing national standards in the form of service specifications and policies. The CRG commenced a review of the current service specification in May 2023, which is expected to be complete by summer 2024. The outcome of the service specification review will be an updated specification which references up-to-date guidance and takes into account the latest evidence base, to clearly define the standards of care for commissioned specialised services.</p><p>To help promote awareness of allergies, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published guidance on a range of allergy conditions, including food allergy in under 19-year-olds, anaphylaxis, and drug allergy. The NICE promotes its guidance via its website, newsletters, and other media.</p><p>To support clinicians in the implementation of clear care pathways, the NICE website has guidance to support diagnosis and treatment of a range of allergy conditions, including how to identify allergies and when to refer to specialist care, and how to ensure allergies are recorded in their medical records.  The NICE website also provides primary care practitioners with access to clinical knowledge summaries outlining the current evidence base and practical guidance on a range of skin conditions.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 20255 question first answered 15/04/2024 08:15:46 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1698356

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2024
	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	Allergies: 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 her Department is taking to improve allergy awareness in health care settings.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	20255
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>The majority of services for people living with allergies are commissioned locally through integrated care boards (ICBs), which are best placed to commission services according to local need. Specialised allergy services are provided for patients with severe and complex allergic conditions, or those who have common allergic conditions for which conventional management has failed and for whom specified specialist treatments are required. In 2023/24, these services are jointly commissioned by NHS England Specialised Commissioning and the ICBs, in line with the published Specialist Allergy Service Specification.</p><p>There is an established Clinical Reference Group (CRG), which is responsible for providing national clinical advice and leadership for specialised immunology and allergy services. The CRG uses its expertise to advise NHS England on the best ways to provide specialised services. This includes developing national standards in the form of service specifications and policies. The CRG commenced a review of the current service specification in May 2023, which is expected to be complete by summer 2024. The outcome of the service specification review will be an updated specification which references up-to-date guidance and takes into account the latest evidence base, to clearly define the standards of care for commissioned specialised services.</p><p>To help promote awareness of allergies, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published guidance on a range of allergy conditions, including food allergy in under 19-year-olds, anaphylaxis, and drug allergy. The NICE promotes its guidance via its website, newsletters, and other media.</p><p>To support clinicians in the implementation of clear care pathways, the NICE website has guidance to support diagnosis and treatment of a range of allergy conditions, including how to identify allergies and when to refer to specialist care, and how to ensure allergies are recorded in their medical records.  The NICE website also provides primary care practitioners with access to clinical knowledge summaries outlining the current evidence base and practical guidance on a range of skin conditions.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 20254 question first answered 15/04/2024 08:15:46 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1697799

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Consumer Goods: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the goods sold by online marketplaces are compliant with the General Product Safety Regulations 2005.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	19838
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards leads a national programme of regulatory action to tackle risks from unsafe and non-compliant goods, including from online marketplaces.</p><p>This includes test purchasing to assess compliance and removal of non-compliant products; engagement with marketplaces to understand the steps they are taking to meet their responsibilities under law; and taking enforcement action including serving Withdrawal Notices.</p><p>The recent Product Safety Review consultation includes additional proposals to ensure products bought online are as safe as on the high street. A Government response will be published this year.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 26/03/2024 16:52:56 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1696624

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2024
	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	Audiology: 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 integrated care boards have introduced (a) community audiology services and (b) self-referral for community audiology.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	19030
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>Information on how many integrated care boards (ICBs) have introduced community audiology services is not held centrally by the Department or NHS England. As part of an ICB self-assessment on the introduction of self-referral, conducted in September 2023, 26 ICBs reported having self-referral in place for community audiology in one or more services, with more ICBs reporting they had plans to introduce it later in the year, or as part of recommissioning arrangements for 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 26/03/2024 11:06:09 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi