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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1148172/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Department is doing everything appropriate to prepare for leaving the European Union. We want to reassure patients that our plans should ensure the uninterrupted supply of medicines and medical products once we have left the EU.<\/p><p>The Department, as part of our EU exit preparations, is implementing a multi-layered approach to mitigate potential disruption to supply, which consists of stockpiling where possible, securing freight capacity, changing or clarifying regulatory requirements, procuring additional warehousing, working closely with industry to improve trader readiness and putting in place the National Supply Disruption Response to manage potential shortages. Further details can be found at the following link:<\/p><p> <\/p><p><a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/medicines-and-medical-products-supply-government-updates-no-deal-brexit-plans\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/medicines-and-medical-products-supply-government-updates-no-deal-brexit-plans<\/a><\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-10-03", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the availability of medicines in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1148176/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Operation Yellowhammer is a cross-Government programme of work to ensure that the United Kingdom is prepared to deal with the potential reasonable worst-case scenario impacts of leaving the European Union without a deal.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>On 11 September, the Government published planning assumptions for exiting the European Union without a deal at the following link:<\/p><p><a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-humble-address-moion\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-humble-address-motion<\/a><\/p><p> <\/p><p>An updated version will be published in due course.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>These include the Department\u2019s planning assumptions relating to the continuity of medicines and medicine supplies, the provision of healthcare to UK nationals within EU Member States, and the provision of adult social care after we have left the EU. The Department maintains robust operational plans to ensure the continuity of services from the National Health Service and wider health and social care system, regardless of circumstances, and will continue to do so.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4362", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Edward Argar"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-10-03", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care: Brexit"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the Government's worst case contingency plans related to his remit on the UK's withdrawal from the EU.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4073", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
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      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Totnes"}
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      ], "uin" : "294145"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1146813", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1146813/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Public Health England (PHE) has published a webpage about exposure to the radio waves from mobile phone base stations, including those for 5G networks, at the following link:<\/p><p><a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mobile-phone-base-stations-radio-waves-and-health/mobile-phone-base-stations-radio-waves-and-health\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mobile-phone-base-stations-radio-waves-and-health/mobile-phone-base-stations-radio-waves-and-health<\/a><\/p><p>This explains the health-related reviews and assessments have been performed, as well as the practical measures that are in place to protect public health.<\/p><p>PHE continues to monitor the health-related evidence applicable to radio waves, including in relation to base stations, and is committed to updating its advice as required.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4380", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jo Churchill"}
        }
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jo Churchill"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-10-02", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-09-27", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "5G: Health Hazards"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the level of risk to health posed by 5G connectivity.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4073", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Totnes"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
      ], "uin" : "291574"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1144677", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1144677/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>National Health Service capital expenditure by NHS providers is funded in large part through their ability to generate income via trading activity with Commissioners. This internally generated financing is supplemented by Departmental financing in the form of repayable capital loans and Public Dividend Capital (PDC) for specific strategic initiatives, for example sustainability and transformation partnerships funding; for investment to address pressures on urgent and emergency care over the winter period or for investment in strategic technology fields.<\/p><p>Details of these investments can be found in the annual report \u2018Financial Assistance under Section 40 of the National Health Service Act 2006\u2019, which is published alongside the Department\u2019s Annual Report. This can be found at the following link:<\/p><p><a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dhsc-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dhsc-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019<\/a><\/p><p>The following table provides detail of the outturn Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (CDEL) for foundation trusts and NHS trusts over the past five years.<\/p><p>It is not possible to provide this information \u2018per capita\u2019 as there is no fixed population or geographical boundary for any given hospital trust.<\/p><p> <\/p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> <\/p><\/td><td><p>2014-15<\/p><\/td><td><p>2015-16<\/p><\/td><td><p>2016-17<\/p><\/td><td><p>2017-18<\/p><\/td><td><p>2018-19<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Foundation Trust CDEL Outturn Expenditure (£,000s)<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,925,555<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,795,693<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,815,837<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,061,023<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,380,091<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>NHS Trust CDEL Outturn Expenditure (£,000s)<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,381,276<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,146,203<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,049,501<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,002,017<\/p><\/td><td><p>1,551,799<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Total NHS Provider CDEL Outturn Expenditure (£,000s)<\/p><\/td><td><p>3,306,831<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,941,896<\/p><\/td><td><p>2,865,338<\/p><\/td><td><p>3,063,040<\/p><\/td><td><p>3,931,890<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4021", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Chris Skidmore"}
        }
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Chris Skidmore"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-09-09", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-09-09T14:54:15.707Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"}
      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-09-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "NHS: Capital Investment"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much capital funding has been (a) allocated to and (b) spent by (i) NHS foundation trusts and (ii) NHS trusts per capita in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4073", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
      }
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
      ], "uin" : "286728"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1144678", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1144678/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>NHS Digital has advised that currently there are 71 National Health Service trusts and 108 NHS foundation trusts who have implemented an Electronic Patient Record System. NHS Digital does not routinely collect data on the overall number of patients\u2019 records and therefore the number of patient\u2019s records is not held on the Electronic Patient Record System.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1481", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Mid Bedfordshire"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Ms Nadine Dorries"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-09-09", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-09-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Medical Records: Databases"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) NHS trusts and (b) NHS foundation trusts have implemented an Electronic Patient Record system; and how many patients\u2019 records are recorded on those systems.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4073", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Totnes"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
      ], "uin" : "286729"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1144679", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1144679/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The number of bids received by the Department and NHS England and NHS Improvement for capital spending are not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4021", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Chris Skidmore"}
        }
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-09-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many bids for capital spending (a) his Department, (b) NHS England and (c) NHS Improvement have (i) accepted and (ii) fully funded in each of the last five years; and what the total value was of those bids in each of those years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4073", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Totnes"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
      ], "uin" : "286730"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1144680", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1144680/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4380", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jo Churchill"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bury St Edmunds"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jo Churchill"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-09-09", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
        , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-09-09T17:19:23.973Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"}
      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-09-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Hospitals: Heating"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many overheating occurrences triggering a risk assessment were recorded by (a) NHS trusts and( b) foundation trusts in (i) England and (ii) Totnes in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4073", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Totnes"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
      ], "uin" : "286731"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1136934", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1136934/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government\u2019s vision, as set out in the Tobacco Control Plan for England published in 2017, is to create a smokefree generation by reducing adult smoking prevalence to 5% or below. The current smoking rates for England are 14.4%, the lowest on record. The Government has not yet committed to a date by which to achieve a smokefree generation but continues to keep progress on reducing prevalence under close review.<\/p><p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4455", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Seema Kennedy"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South Ribble"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Seema Kennedy"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-07-09", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
        , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-07-09T16:19:44.403Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"}
      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"}
      , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"}
      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-07-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Smoking"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the July 2017 tobacco control plan for England, when the Government plans to announce a date for achieving its smokefree generation target of smoking prevalence at 5 per cent or below.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4073", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
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      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Totnes"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dr Sarah Wollaston"}
      ], "uin" : "273383"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1136935", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1136935/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The United Kingdom is a signatory to the World Health Organization\u2019s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The Government takes very seriously its treaty obligations, including the commitment under Article 5.3 to protect public health policies with respect to tobacco control from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry. It expects all public bodies to follow comply with the FCTC Secretariat\u2019s guidance on this Article.<\/p><p>To remind the National Health Service of this commitment, NHS England issued a note to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in the CCG bulletin dated 26 July 2018. Public Health England (PHE) has also written to local authorities and Directors of Public Health advising against such partnerships, a message reiterated in the PHE blog. The blog is available to view at the following link:<\/p><p><a href=\"https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/01/05/duncan-selbies-friday-message-5-january-2018/\" target=\"_blank\">https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/01/05/duncan-selbies-friday-message-5-january-2018/<\/a><\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4455", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Seema Kennedy"}
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