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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1133888/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government is concerned by the number of drug-related deaths, which is largely caused by an ageing cohort of heroin users. We are supporting local areas to develop a more joined up approach to commissioning and delivering the range of services that are essential to supporting recovery and preventing drug-related deaths. In October, the Home Office announced that there would be a major independent review of drug misuse. This will look at a wide range of issues, including the system of support and enforcement around drug abuse, to better inform our thinking about what more can be done to tackle drug harms including deaths. The review shall inform our thinking about what more can be done to mitigate the harm caused through drug use.<\/p><p>Local authorities will receive £3.1 billion in 2019/20, ring-fenced exclusively for use on public health, including drug addiction. We are investing over £16 billion in local authority public health services over the five years of the 2015 Spending Review until 2020/21. Public health funding for 2020 onwards, including for addiction services, will be considered carefully in the next Spending Review, in the light of the available evidence.<\/p><p><strong> <\/strong><\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1133889/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government is concerned by the number of drug-related deaths, which is largely caused by an ageing cohort of heroin users. We are supporting local areas to develop a more joined up approach to commissioning and delivering the range of services that are essential to supporting recovery and preventing drug-related deaths. In October, the Home Office announced that there would be a major independent review of drug misuse. This will look at a wide range of issues, including the system of support and enforcement around drug abuse, to better inform our thinking about what more can be done to tackle drug harms including deaths. The review shall inform our thinking about what more can be done to mitigate the harm caused through drug use.<\/p><p>Local authorities will receive £3.1 billion in 2019/20, ring-fenced exclusively for use on public health, including drug addiction. We are investing over £16 billion in local authority public health services over the five years of the 2015 Spending Review until 2020/21. Public health funding for 2020 onwards, including for addiction services, will be considered carefully in the next Spending Review, in the light of the available evidence.<\/p><p><strong> <\/strong><\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of the change to the level of the Public Health Grant over the forthcoming 2019 Spending Review on the (a) quality of drug treatment services and (b) number of drug-related deaths.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3973", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Grahame Morris"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1133890", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1133890/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) prevention initiatives report summarises a wide range of actions led by Public Health England (PHE) which will reduce preventable deaths from CVD. This can be viewed at the following link:<\/p><p><a href=\"http://www.healthcheck.nhs.uk/commissioners-and-providers/national-guidance/\" target=\"_blank\">www.healthcheck.nhs.uk/commissioners-and-providers/national-guidance/<\/a><\/p><p>In February 2018 PHE published national ambitions on the secondary prevention of Atrial Fibrillation, High Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol. This can be viewed at the following link:<\/p><p><a href=\"https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2019/02/14/health-matters-preventing-cardiovascular-disease/\" target=\"_blank\">https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2019/02/14/health-matters-preventing-cardiovascular-disease/<\/a><\/p><p>People aged 40-74 without existing disease are eligible once every five years for an NHS Health Check, England\u2019s CVD prevention programme. Modelling shows that the programme, is cost effective with potential savings to the National Health Service of around £57 million per year after four years, rising to £176 million per year after 15 years. This equates to a cost per Quality Adjusted Life Year of around £3,000, considerably lower than the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence\u2019s threshold. The cost benefits of the programme primarily arise from the opportunity it presents to prevent 1,600 heart attacks and strokes and save at least 650 lives each year. A copy of the Economic Modelling for Vascular Checks is attached.<\/p><p>The United Kingdom National Screening Committee has not undertaken an assessment of the impact of routine screening for the elderly to prevent deaths due to heart disease. Therefore, the Committee has not made a recommendation on this issue.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of preventable deaths caused by heart disease; and whether he has made an assessment of whether improving screening for older people would (a) help tackle the number of deaths attributed to heart disease and (b) be cost-effective.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1604", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1133891", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1133891/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) prevention initiatives report summarises a wide range of actions led by Public Health England (PHE) which will reduce preventable deaths from CVD. This can be viewed at the following link:<\/p><p><a href=\"http://www.healthcheck.nhs.uk/commissioners-and-providers/national-guidance/\" target=\"_blank\">www.healthcheck.nhs.uk/commissioners-and-providers/national-guidance/<\/a><\/p><p>In February 2018 PHE published national ambitions on the secondary prevention of Atrial Fibrillation, High Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol. This can be viewed at the following link:<\/p><p><a href=\"https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2019/02/14/health-matters-preventing-cardiovascular-disease/\" target=\"_blank\">https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2019/02/14/health-matters-preventing-cardiovascular-disease/<\/a><\/p><p>People aged 40-74 without existing disease are eligible once every five years for an NHS Health Check, England\u2019s CVD prevention programme. Modelling shows that the programme, is cost effective with potential savings to the National Health Service of around £57 million per year after four years, rising to £176 million per year after 15 years. This equates to a cost per Quality Adjusted Life Year of around £3,000, considerably lower than the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence\u2019s threshold. The cost benefits of the programme primarily arise from the opportunity it presents to prevent 1,600 heart attacks and strokes and save at least 650 lives each year. A copy of the Economic Modelling for Vascular Checks is attached.<\/p><p>The United Kingdom National Screening Committee has not undertaken an assessment of the impact of routine screening for the elderly to prevent deaths due to heart disease. Therefore, the Committee has not made a recommendation on this issue.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of heart disease screening programmes for the elderly on (a) the incidence of preventable disease and (b) NHS costs.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1604", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1133549/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified outdoor air pollution and particulate matter in outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic to humans. This can be viewed at the following link:<\/p><p><a href=\"https://monographs.iarc.fr/iarc-monographs-on-the-evaluation-of-carcinogenic-risks-to-humans-7/\" target=\"_blank\">https://monographs.iarc.fr/iarc-monographs-on-the-evaluation-of-carcinogenic-risks-to-humans-7/<\/a><\/p><p>Estimates in a recent paper on lung cancer in non-smoking people in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine co-authored by Public Health England show that nearly 6,000 never-smokers die of lung cancer in United Kingdom every year and that approximately 8% of these deaths may be attributable to outdoor air pollution. This can be viewed at the following link:<\/p><p><a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-018-0029-6\" target=\"_blank\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-018-0029-6<\/a><\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has identified a link between air pollution and lung cancer in non-smoking persons.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/473", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1133631/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Department does not hold information on the cost to the National Health Service of treating gambling addictions.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan has made a commitment to investing in expanding NHS specialist clinics to help more people with serious gambling problems. The first NHS gambling clinic for children will open this year as part of a new network of services for addicts being rolled out as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. Up to 14 new NHS clinics are being opened - starting with the NHS Northern Gambling Service in Leeds this summer, followed by Manchester and Sunderland. The National Problem Gambling Clinic in London will also offer specialist help for children and young people aged 13 to 25 as part of an expansion.<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1133661/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government seeks to ensure that the regulatory and environment reflects the relative harms of different tobacco and nicotine products. The European Union Tobacco Products Directive 2014 placed limits on the sale and merchandising of tobacco and tobacco related products. This was transposed in to United Kingdom law through the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations (TRPR) 2016 and forms part of comprehensive regulatory framework to reduce public health harms caused by smoking. This framework acknowledges e-cigarettes are not tobacco products and has fewer restrictions than them.<\/p><p>To reduce the affordability of tobacco, HM Treasury continue to apply the Tobacco Duty Escalator to cigarettes at 2% above inflation as outlined in the Budget 2018, with hand rolling tobacco increasing by an additional 1%.<\/p><p>The Government has a statutory obligation to conduct a Post Implementation Review of the TRPR by May 2021. The Government will review where the UK\u2019s exit from the EU offers opportunities to re-appraise current regulation to ensure this continues to protect the nation\u2019s health.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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