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1660378

registered interest
date	13/09/2023
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	NHS: Equality
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 people have been hired in NHS roles relating to equality, diversity and inclusion since 2020.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	199270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2023 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/09/2023 09:50:37 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1660408

registered interest
date	13/09/2023
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	Coronavirus: 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 he has made of the potential impact of the unavailability of testing kits free of charge on the accuracy of national Covid-19 surveillance reports.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	199294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>The data in the national COVID-19 and flu surveillance reports are accurate based on the data reported to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).</p><p>The changes in the availability of free COVID-19 testing have not affected the accuracy of data presented within UKHSA’s national COVID-19 and flu surveillance reports. Changes to testing policies over time have changed the volume and breadth of data included in the reports, and this needs to be considered when interpreting that information.</p><p>However, there continues to be a range of useful and accurate data available within the national COVID-19 and flu surveillance reports taken from other sources, including our ongoing surveillance programmes.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 21/09/2023 14:09:38 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 95410 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1660409

registered interest
date	13/09/2023
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	Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2023 to Question 197990 on Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus, how many data subject access requests have been submitted for the 1,784 Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme claims which have been outstanding for over three months; and of those, how many data subject access requests have been outstanding for more than (a) six months, (b) three months and (c) one month.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	199272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>As of 1 September, of the 1,784 COVID-19 related claims that have been waiting for the provision of medical records for over three months, 314 claims have had subject access requests (SARs) submitted, with a total of 492 SARs between them. Claims usually have an average of two to three healthcare providers listed on their claim form, which results in multiple SARs being submitted for one claim. 1,470 claims have not had any SARs submitted. Due to previous SARs not receiving the desired outcome, steps are being taken to identify other avenues to engage with healthcare providers to gather medical records as quickly as possible and improve processing times.</p><p>Of the 492 SARs submitted, 62 (12%) have been outstanding more than six months, 276 (56%) have been outstanding more than three months, 280 (57%) have been outstanding more than one month, and two have been outstanding for less than a month. 210 (43%) of these SARs have resulted in the records being received.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 18/09/2023 14:51:01 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1660417

registered interest
date	13/09/2023
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	Walking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to update health guidelines on daily step counts.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	199329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government encourages adults to focus on walking briskly rather than just counting steps to improve their health.</p><p>The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ (OHID) ‘Better Health’ programme offers a number of free, accessible and evidence-based resources to support adults and young people to be more active. This includes the NHS Active 10 app, which encourages adults to incorporate brisk walking into their days to improve their general health and wellbeing without the need for gyms or expensive fitness programmes. The app supports and motivates users to increase and monitor the intensity of their walking, rather than just focus on the distance or number of steps throughout the day. Just 10 minutes of brisk walking a day is an easy way for adults to introduce more moderate intensity physical activity into their day.</p><p>To support more individuals to reach a brisk walking pace and to achieve moderate intensity activity, OHID have just launched a new feature within the NHS Active 10 app, called ‘Pace Checker’. The feature helps walkers to find their brisk walking pace of 100 or more steps per minute, and motivates them to complete more Active 10s every day.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 19/09/2023 12:28:51 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1660418

registered interest
date	13/09/2023
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	Alcoholic Drinks: Consumption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to update public health guidance on alcohol consumption.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	199330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>There are no current plans to do so. The existing United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers’ low risk drinking guidelines are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/alcohol-consumption-advice-on-low-risk-drinking" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/alcohol-consumption-advice-on-low-risk-drinking</a></p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 19/09/2023 12:31:03 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1659961

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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	Vorasidenib
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 7 September (HL9841), whether they have any plans to discuss Vorasidenib with Servier Laboratories.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL10071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2023 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has not granted a marketing authorisation for Vorasidenib, however should an application be received from Servier Laboratories, the MHRA has licensing pathways available, with the aim of ensuring the products can be made available for patients in the United Kingdom in the shortest time possible and to support and protect public health. While the MHRA will assess any submitted applications and is willing to facilitate the appropriate regulatory processes, the agency cannot actively seek these applications and as such there are currently no plans to discuss Vorasidenib with Servier Laboratories.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 20/09/2023 10:08:18 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1659963

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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	Suicide: Mental Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what measures exist to support effective suicide (1) surveillance, and (2) prevention.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL10073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2023 answer text <p>The National near Real Time Suspected Suicide Surveillance system will be live by the end of 2023. Its reports will act as an early warning system for indications of change in suicides through analysis of data on suspected suicides.</p><p> </p><p>Everyone has a role to play in suicide prevention and the Government published its new five-year, cross-Government and cross-sector suicide prevention strategy for England on 11 September 2023. The content of the strategy was informed by data, evidence, and engagement with stakeholders, including people with lived experience, and by the mental health and wellbeing plan call for evidence conducted in 2022.</p><p> </p><p>The Strategy is a call for action for national and local government, the health service, and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, employers, and individuals to tackle suicide. It sets out over 100 actions from across a wide range of organisations to support our ambitions for suicide prevention.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 26/09/2023 15:22:04 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1659973

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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	Medical Records: Data Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are the differences in (1) the remit, and (2) the membership, of NHS England’s Advisory Group on Data and the Department of Health and Social Care's National Data Advisory Group.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL10083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>The Advisory Group for Data (AGD) is convened by NHS England and builds on the previous work by the Independent Group Advising on the Release of Data (IGARD). Currently operating in interim form, it includes the members of IGARD, alongside a representative of the Caldicott Guardian of NHS England, the Data Protection Officer, and senior staff supporting on Data and Analytics.</p><p>It provides NHS England with access to expert advice and assurance on internal and external access to data in relation to the exercise of NHS England’s functions transferred to it from NHS Digital, including on specific requests for the dissemination of information in accordance with the statutory guidance issued by my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Its minutes are published on the NHS England website.</p><p>The National Data Advisory Group (NDAG) is convened by the Department to provide strategic policy advice on data and data sharing, including the implementation of Data Saves Lives, the data strategy. It does not advise on specific data sharing requests and has a different membership to the ADG. NDAG includes, among others, the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care, the Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the Chief Executive of the Patient’s Association.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 19/09/2023 16:25:11 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1659990

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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	Tobacco: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what consultations they carried out with departments in Northern Ireland regarding the Tobacco and Related Products (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023.
tabling member printed	Lord Dodds of Duncairn
uin	HL10100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>Departmental officials consulted with officials from the Department of Health in Northern Ireland about the Tobacco and Related Products (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023.</p><p>No consultations have taken place as to whether regulatory changes in Northern Ireland should apply to heated tobacco products in Great Britain. Heated tobacco use remains low in Great Britain, but we will keep this under review, working with our counterparts in the devolved administrations.</p><p>The assessment given to regulatory divergence with the rest of the United Kingdom on the introduction of the regulation is that heated tobacco use throughout Great Britain and Northern Ireland is low. From 23 October 2023, there may be heated tobacco products that are permitted on the Great Britain market but that are not on the Northern Ireland market. It continues to be policy of the Department in England to discourage people from taking up tobacco, and to help people quit the use of it.</p><p>It will be an offence for anyone to sell heated tobacco products prohibited in the regulations in Northern Ireland. Each district council in Northern Ireland will enforce the new requirements under existing funding. These new requirements are not expected to be a significant burden on each district council, given the low use of heated tobacco products in Northern Ireland.</p><p>To assist with regulatory compliance for businesses selling heated tobacco, the Department has sent communications information on the regulations to the Northern Ireland Retail body and the Federation of Small Businesses, along with the suppliers of heated tobacco products on the Northern Ireland market. Information was also shared through the Northern Ireland Business Information website. The changes were also communicated to Northern Ireland councils through the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives.</p><p>No new regulation has been created in the Tobacco and Related Products (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023 regarding creating an independent advisory panel. Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/786 continues to apply in Northern Ireland and lays down the procedure for the establishment and operation of an independent advisory panel to assist in this determination.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL10102 HL10104 HL10105 HL10106 HL10107 question first answered 19/09/2023 16:24:35 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

1659991

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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	Fractures: Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to their commitment in the Major Conditions Strategy: case for change and our strategic framework, published on 14 August and updated on 21 August, to set up more fracture liaison services, whether the responsibility for that initiative lies with the Department of Health and Social Care or with NHS England.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL10101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2023 answer text <p>In August 2023, we set out our initial plans for the Major Conditions Strategy within the<em> Case for change and our strategic framework</em>. This initial report sets out what we have learned so far, and shares what we plan to focus on next to develop the final strategy. This includes, together with NHS England, exploring further support for the provision of Fracture Liaison Services. This could include identifying people at risk of further osteoporotic fragility fracture and implementing strategies to reduce the risk of future fracture (including falls) and mortality.</p><p>The final strategy will be published in early 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 26/09/2023 15:52:40 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood