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1105868

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date	28/03/2019
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	World Health Assembly: Taiwan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support Taiwan's participation in the World Health Assembly as an observer; and whether his Department has encouraged Taiwan to participate in technical meetings of the World Health Organisation.
tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
uin	238323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department continues to support the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on this topic. The Government is working with likeminded countries to lobby the World Health Organization (WHO) at official level to issue an invitation to Taiwan to observe the World Health Assembly (WHA) in May.</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom continues to support Taiwan’s meaningful participation in international organisations where statehood is not a prerequisite and where Taiwan can make a valuable contribution. The UK believes the WHA and related technical meetings of the WHO meet these criteria.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 05/04/2019 11:17:08 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

1056676

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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	Occupational Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the UK population has access to occupational health services.
tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
uin	218250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>In 2014, 51% of employees in Great Britain reported having access to occupational health services.</p><p> </p><p>For information, an occupational health service provides advice and practical support about how to stay healthy in the workplace and how to manage health conditions. For example, access to health care professions, or support or advice for making workplace adjustments.</p><p> </p><p>Employees are not strictly defined but are Great Britain employees aged 16 and over.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/02/2019 13:35:12 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

1056679

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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	Occupational Health: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to increase the number of occupational health practitioners.
tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
uin	218252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s November 2017 Command Paper ‘Improving lives: the future of work, health and disability’ set out a vision for the reform of occupational health and recognised the critical role of occupational health and other related professions in delivering this.</p><p> </p><p>In line with the commitments in the Command Paper, an Occupational Health Expert Group was appointed to support work in this area. This has included looking at the occupational health workforce to ensure sufficient expert capacity is available in the future. Health Education England, through its National School of Occupational Health, has also been involved in this work.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers have announced their intention to consult on measures to improve access to high quality occupational health later this year.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/02/2019 12:19:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

1007786

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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	Parkinson's Disease: Mental Health Services
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 with Parkinson’s disease accessed Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services; what the average waiting time was for a person with Parkinson’s disease from referral to first appointment; and what the recovery rate was for people with Parkinson’s disease following completion of that treatment in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
uin	191900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/11/2018 11:19:12 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers