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1731057

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date	04/10/2024
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	Prostate Cancer: Screening
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 implications for his policies of rates of late diagnosis of prostate cancer; and what steps his Department is taking to tackle those rates.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Adam Jogee
uin	6962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. We recognise that late diagnosis of cancers, including prostate cancer, can impact treatment options, reduce a patient’s chances of survival, and potentially increase the cost of effective treatments. NHS England is taking steps to raise awareness of prostate cancer, where there are opportunities to do so. For example, NHS England partners with Cancer Alliances, charities, and local representatives to reach people through projects in the heart of their communities. On 8 January 2024, NHS England also relaunched the Help Us Help You campaign for cancer, designed to increase earlier diagnosis of cancer by reducing barriers to seeking earlier help, as well as increasing body vigilance and knowledge of key red flag symptoms.</p><p>Screening for prostate cancer is currently not recommended by the UK National Screening Committees. This is because of the inaccuracy of the current best test, the Prostate Specific Antigen. The UK National Screening Committee is currently undertaking an evidence review for prostate cancer screening, and plans to report within its three-year work plan. The evidence review includes modelling of several approaches to prostate cancer screening, which includes different potential ways of screening the whole population from 40 years of age onwards, and targeted screening aimed at groups of people identified as being at higher than average risk, such as black men or men with a family history of cancer.</p><p>In addition, we are working with Prostate Cancer UK to launch the TRANSFORM trial. The £42 million nationwide screening study will compare the most promising tests to look for prostate cancer in men that do not have any symptoms.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 14/10/2024 14:00:26 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	5168

1464981

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will increase funding for research into myalgic encephalomyelitis; and what steps he is taking to meet the additional needs of people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis and other similar chronic conditions.
tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
uin	6962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2022 answer text <p>The Department has asked the UK Clinical Research Collaboration to convene a subgroup on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) with a range of stakeholders, including research funders, to ensure high quality applications for research into ME/CFS and support the research community to build capacity and capability.</p><p>On 12 May 2022, we announced the intention to develop a cross-Government Delivery Plan for ME/CFS in England. The delivery plan will build on the recommendations of the ME/CFS Priority Setting Partnership and the recently updated guideline from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to ensure that people living with ME/CFS have the appropriate support.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are establishing a task and finish group to produce guidance on the provision of high-quality services for people living with long term pain by September 2022. The guidance is aimed at integrated care systems to provide core principles which can be used to inform the development of local models of care to support people living with chronic pain.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 01/06/2022 09:33:29 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan previous answer version 3432 answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

756108

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment: Learning Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department takes to ensure that employers have access to the skills and knowledge necessary to employ someone with a learning disability.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	6962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government is strongly committed to increasing employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities and are working across Government and with local authorities, voluntary organisations and employers in the public and private sectors to achieve this.</p><p> </p><p>For people with a learning disability or autism who are known to adult social care services, or those in contact with secondary mental health services, we are working with local authorities, to test an approach to delivering supported employment, with payments based on employment outcomes. We are also testing supported work experience for young disabled people aged 18-24 flowing into the Work-Related Activities Group of Employment Support Allowance or the Universal Credit equivalent. Those young people with little or no work experience will be offered a supported work experience placement with an employer, to help them gain confidence and encourage them to look for work. Although the proof of concept is pan-disability we expect a significant proportion of those taking part to have a learning disability.</p><p> </p><p>Eligibility to specialist employment support programmes such as Work Choice (WC) and Specialist Employability Support (SES) is not benefit or disability specific, but does include claimants who are on Jobseeker's Allowance and who have a learning disability. Of all those to have who started Work Choice, 56% were claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance and almost a quarter had a mild learning disability/moderate to severe learning disability.</p><p> </p><p>We are promoting Disability Confident among employers, including the benefits to business of employing people with learning disabilities. Almost 5,000 employers have now signed up to be Disability Confident, including all Government Departments. Access to Work is also available to help people with learning disabilities into employment, such as funding for a Job Coach to support a person’s induction and provide on-site training in a new job.</p><p> </p><p>DWP publishes online guidance for employing people with health conditions and disabilities, including learning disabilities. It provides information to help employers increase their understanding of disability and enable them to recruit and support disabled people and those with long term health conditions in work. The Disability Confident scheme provides links to a range of guidance and other resources to enable employers to become more confident when recruiting and retaining disabled people. The guidance can be accessed at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/employing-disabled-people-and-people-with-health-conditions/employing-disabled-people-and-people-with-health-conditions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/employing-disabled-people-and-people-with-health-conditions/employing-disabled-people-and-people-with-health-conditions</a></p><p> </p><p>The Green Paper Improving Lives; the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper, asked questions about how we better support people into employment and highlighted learning disabilities as an area for further discussion. We engaged in a wide range of conversations with stakeholders during the consultation period and received over 6000 responses. We are now carefully considering these formulating next steps for longer-term reform.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 6961 6964 question first answered 07/09/2017 16:01:23 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

389880

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Burma: Internally Displaced People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department is providing for internally displaced people in Shan and Kachin states, Burma.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	6962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>Between 2012 and 2015 DFID has allocated over £17 million for humanitarian assistance for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Kachin and Northern Shan States, including in non-government controlled areas.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 20/07/2015 16:39:39 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi