@prefix rdf: . @prefix xsd: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix skos: . @prefix rdfs: . @prefix api: . @prefix parl: . parl:answerText "

Public Health England (PHE) has developed a programme to support national and local government to reduce the burden of disease attributable to air pollution. This includes awareness raising, developing the evidence base on the health effects of air pollution and interventions aiming to reduce exposure to air pollution and provide wider public health benefits.

PHE undertakes various air quality research projects, working with academic partners, to review the evidence for the health effects of air pollutants. PHE is a partner in two health protection research units (HPRU) funded by the National Institute for Health Research, whose remit includes air pollution research: The Health impact of Environmental Hazards HPRU and the HPRU in Environmental Change and Health. Further information can be found at the following links:

http://hieh.hpru.nihr.ac.uk/

http://www.hpru-ech.nihr.ac.uk/

None of the research projects specifically focus on PM0.1 but address air pollution components which are included in this category.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Winchester" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Brine" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-02-07"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-02-07T15:17:23.99Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:hansardHeading "Cervical Cancer" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that cervical cancer patients receive treatment within 20 days of diagnosis." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Wallasey" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Ms Angela Eagle" ; parl:uin "216141" ; dcterms:date "2019-02-04"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

Public Health England (PHE) has not received or commissioned any assessments on disposing of plastic waste by incineration.

When consulted, PHE provides an expert and independent opinion to the regulator, the Environment Agency, on the potential impacts on human health of emissions arising from existing or proposed regulated facilities, such as municipal waste incinerators (MWIs). Emissions from existing regulated facilities are closely monitored and regulated by the Environment Agency.

PHE’s position is that well run and regulated modern MWIs are not a significant risk to public health when incinerating the general municipal waste mix which includes plastic.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Winchester" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Brine" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-02-07"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-02-07T13:45:22.91Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

Public Health England is working to raise awareness of this disease and encourage women to attend cervical screening through the national ‘Be Clear on Cancer’ campaigns, which have been run in partnership with Cancer Research UK since 2011.

PHE is in the process of developing a new campaign that will promote the uptake of cervical screening. The campaign is scheduled to launch early in March.

NHS England is also investing in initiatives to help ensure equality of access to screening and is investing more than £258 million this year to improve access to general practice and more than half the country is benefitting from improved access to all routine appointments (including cervical screening), at evening and/or weekends.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Winchester" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Brine" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-02-07"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-02-07T17:33:42.717Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, sets out a vital strategic framework to ensure that over the next 10 years the National Health Service will have the staff it needs.

My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned Baroness Dido Harding, working closely with Sir David Behan, to lead a number of programmes to engage with key NHS interests to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan. These programmes will consider detailed proposals to grow the workforce, including consideration of additional staff and skills required, build a supportive working culture in the NHS and ensure first rate leadership for NHS staff.

Radiotherapy degree courses are three years in length, therefore students affected by the changes to the education funding system from 2017 will not have completed courses funded by loans to enable an assessment of the effect of the removal of bursaries on this profession.

The Cancer Workforce Plan Phase 1, included a target of upskilling 300 more radiographers in image interpretation and reporting by 2021. Currently, 88 individuals have started training programmes towards this, 62 will start in January, and a further 150 during 2019/20.

Phase 2 of the Cancer Workforce Plan will follow the Workforce Implementation Plan published later in 2019.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Winchester" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Brine" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-02-07"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:groupedQuestionUIN "216167" ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-02-07T17:28:08.58Z"^^xsd:dateTime . skos:prefLabel "House of Commons" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:hansardHeading "Incinerators: Air Pollution" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Public Health England assesses evidence submitted by applicants for planning permission of the projected or estimated effect of waste incinerators on (a) air quality and (b) human health of future emissions (i) PM0.1 (ii) PM1 and (iii) PM 2.5." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Stroud" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Dr David Drew" ; parl:uin "214454" ; dcterms:date "2019-01-30"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

The NHS Long Term Plan published in January 2019 sets out the Government’s ambitions to see 55,000 more people surviving cancer for five years in England each year from 2028 and three quarters of all cancers detected at an early stage by 2028. To achieve these targets, we will need to make significant progress on survival across all cancers, including cervical cancer.

NHS England will shortly be introducing a Faster Diagnostic Standard of 28 days for all cancer patients which, when taken together with the 62-day referral to treatment standard, will mean that all patients should expect to start their treatment within 34 days of diagnosis. This is a maximum, and trusts should continue to treat patients more quickly particularly where there is a strong clinical need.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Winchester" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Brine" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-02-07"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-02-07T15:14:49.323Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, sets out a vital strategic framework to ensure that over the next 10 years the National Health Service will have the staff it needs.

My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned Baroness Dido Harding, working closely with Sir David Behan, to lead a number of programmes to engage with key NHS interests to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan. These programmes will consider detailed proposals to grow the workforce, including consideration of additional staff and skills required, build a supportive working culture in the NHS and ensure first rate leadership for NHS staff.

Radiotherapy degree courses are three years in length, therefore students affected by the changes to the education funding system from 2017 will not have completed courses funded by loans to enable an assessment of the effect of the removal of bursaries on this profession.

The Cancer Workforce Plan Phase 1, included a target of upskilling 300 more radiographers in image interpretation and reporting by 2021. Currently, 88 individuals have started training programmes towards this, 62 will start in January, and a further 150 during 2019/20.

Phase 2 of the Cancer Workforce Plan will follow the Workforce Implementation Plan published later in 2019.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Winchester" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Brine" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-02-07"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:groupedQuestionUIN "216168" ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-02-07T17:28:08.623Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Rebecca Pow" . parl:answerText "

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) advises ministers and the National Health Service in all four countries about all aspects of screening policy and supports implementation. Using research evidence, pilot programmes and economic evaluation, it assesses the evidence for programmes against a set of internationally recognised criteria.

The UK NSC has not reviewed the evidence for a national screening programme for kidney cancer, however, the Committee welcomes new topic proposals via its annual call for topics which opens each year from September - December.

Ministers carefully consider all recommendations made by the UK NSC.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Winchester" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Brine" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-02-07"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-02-07T13:47:54.97Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:hansardHeading "Food: Waste Disposal" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2019 to Question 212301 on Food Waste: Disposal, whether (a) his Department and (b) Public Health England undertook an assessment of the effect on (i) human health and (ii) air quality of the collection and recycling of food waste." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Stroud" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Dr David Drew" ; parl:uin "214453" ; dcterms:date "2019-01-30"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Dr David Drew" . parl:answerText "

Public Health England (PHE) is not a statutory consultee under the planning regime. Local authority planners should consider consulting the Director of Public Health on any planning applications (including at the pre-application stage) that are likely to have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of the local population or particular groups within it. This guidance can be viewed at the following links:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/consultation-and-pre-decision-matters#Statutory-consultees-on-applications

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/health-and-wellbeing#health-organisation-contact.

Where consulted on planning applications, PHE takes the view that emissions from such plants are best considered as part of the associated environmental permit application. PHE is consulted by the Environment Agency and provides an independent opinion on all bespoke environmental permit applications, such as municipal waste incinerators, with regard to public health impacts. These assessments cover a range of emissions to air, water and land, including but not exclusively particulate matter. The role of PHE can be viewed at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/477277/Environmental_permitting_guide_Nov_2015.pdf

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Winchester" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Brine" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-02-07"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-02-07T13:43:15.94Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:hansardHeading "Radiology: Training" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the end of NHS student bursaries for radiography courses on (a) the number of diagnostic tests undertaken and (b) trends in the level of the workforce recruitment and retention in radiotherapy." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Westmorland and Lonsdale" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Tim Farron" ; parl:uin "216168" ; dcterms:date "2019-02-04"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:hansardHeading "Kidney Cancer: Screening" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will support the call by Kidney Cancer UK to fund research on a national screening programme for kidney cancer." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Washington and Sunderland West" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Mrs Sharon Hodgson" ; parl:uin "214526" ; dcterms:date "2019-01-30"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:hansardHeading "Air Pollution" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2019 to Question 206215 on Air Pollution, what the implications for his policies are of the statement in the Public Health England report, published in March 2017, entitled Air Quality A Briefing for Directors of Public Health that PM is inhaled into the lungs and ultrafine PM0.1 is thought to pass into the blood causing many adverse outcomes including systemic inflammation." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Stroud" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Dr David Drew" ; parl:uin "214452" ; dcterms:date "2019-01-30"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:hansardHeading "Cancer: Screening" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which of the 10 most prevalent forms of cancer for adults (a) women and (b) men have a national screening programme." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Stroud" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Dr David Drew" ; parl:uin "216132" ; dcterms:date "2019-02-04"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

The UK National Screening Committee advises Ministers and the National Health Service in all four countries on all aspects of population screening, and supports implementation. It is only where the offer to screen provides more good than harm that a screening programme is recommended. NHS England mandates the NHS to provide 11 national population-based screening programmes.

There are three adult national cancer screening programmes: breast cancer and cervical cancer screening for women and bowel cancer screening for both men and women.

According to research conducted by Cancer Research UK, both bowel and breast cancer are among the 10 most prevalent forms of cancers for adults.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Winchester" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Brine" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-02-07"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-02-07T17:31:53.543Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

Public Health England (PHE) has not made a specific assessment of the potential effect on public health of the collection and recycling of food waste. However, PHE has been involved in reviewing the current evidence for the potential health effects of bioaerosols resulting from composting facilities, including facilities recycling food waste. This assessment concluded that while there is some suggestive, albeit limited, qualitative evidence linking bioaerosol emissions from composting facilities to possible respiratory effects, further study is needed for confirmation and to explore other health outcomes. The report is available to view at the following link:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25825807

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ Resources and Waste Strategy details the Government’s ambitions for minimising the environmental impacts of waste whilst maximising its value as a resource. The strategy is available to view at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/resources-and-waste-strategy-for-england

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Winchester" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Brine" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-02-07"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-02-07T13:46:55.677Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:hansardHeading "Radiography: Training" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to tackle reductions in the number of applicants to radiography courses since the end of the NHS bursaries for those courses." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Westmorland and Lonsdale" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Tim Farron" ; parl:uin "216167" ; dcterms:date "2019-02-01"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Tim Farron" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:hansardHeading "Cervical Cancer: Screening" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to encourage more women to attend cervical screening." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Taunton Deane" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Rebecca Pow" ; parl:uin "909064" ; dcterms:date "2019-02-04"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health and Social Care" ; parl:hansardHeading "Incinerators: Air Pollution" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) his Department and (b) Public Health England (i) received and (ii) commissioned assessments of the effect on peoples' health of emissions from waste incinerators disposing of plastic." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Stroud" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Dr David Drew" ; parl:uin "214451" ; dcterms:date "2019-01-30"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Steve Brine" . a api:Page ; "10"^^xsd:long ; "1"^^xsd:long ; "29"^^xsd:long ; dcterms:isPartOf ; api:definition ; api:extendedMetadataVersion ; api:items ( ) ; api:page "0"^^xsd:long ; ; . a api:ListEndpoint ; dcterms:hasPart ; api:definition .