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769701

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hepatitis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to eliminate Hepatitis C.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	107488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The United Kingdom government is a signatory to the World Health Assembly resolution and World Health Organization (WHO) goal of eliminating hepatitis C as a major public health threat by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>Progress towards achieving the WHO elimination goal is summarised in this year’s Public Health England’s (PHE) report “Hepatitis C in the UK”:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632465/HCV_in_the_uk_report_2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632465/HCV_in_the_uk_report_2017.pdf</a></p><p>This showed that better access to improved treatment has led to the first fall in deaths from severe hepatitis C related liver disease in a decade and that the UK is on target for the WHO interim goal to reduce hepatitis C mortality by 10% by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>For England a sustainable rollout of access to new direct acting antivirals for treating chronic hepatitis C is underway with investment of in excess of £200 million per year. The current financial year (2017/18) is the third year of hepatitis C treatment ramp-up and the plan is to treat 12,500 individuals.</p><p> </p><p>An estimated 160,000 persons are believed to have hepatitis C in England. Further modelling work is being undertaken by PHE to update estimates of the impact of treatment roll out on prevalence of hepatitis C and hepatitis C-associated advanced liver disease. Previous PHE modelling of the scale up of treatment indicates that a “rapid complete coverage” scenario of treating 20,000 or more individuals per year and up to 50% of those infected each year would result in end-stage liver disease / hepatocellular cancer being halved within 10 years.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 107489 question first answered 19/10/2017 15:17:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

769702

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hepatitis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people who require treatment each year to meet the UK's commitment to eliminate Hepatitis C as a public health concern by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	107489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The United Kingdom government is a signatory to the World Health Assembly resolution and World Health Organization (WHO) goal of eliminating hepatitis C as a major public health threat by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>Progress towards achieving the WHO elimination goal is summarised in this year’s Public Health England’s (PHE) report “Hepatitis C in the UK”:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632465/HCV_in_the_uk_report_2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632465/HCV_in_the_uk_report_2017.pdf</a></p><p>This showed that better access to improved treatment has led to the first fall in deaths from severe hepatitis C related liver disease in a decade and that the UK is on target for the WHO interim goal to reduce hepatitis C mortality by 10% by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>For England a sustainable rollout of access to new direct acting antivirals for treating chronic hepatitis C is underway with investment of in excess of £200 million per year. The current financial year (2017/18) is the third year of hepatitis C treatment ramp-up and the plan is to treat 12,500 individuals.</p><p> </p><p>An estimated 160,000 persons are believed to have hepatitis C in England. Further modelling work is being undertaken by PHE to update estimates of the impact of treatment roll out on prevalence of hepatitis C and hepatitis C-associated advanced liver disease. Previous PHE modelling of the scale up of treatment indicates that a “rapid complete coverage” scenario of treating 20,000 or more individuals per year and up to 50% of those infected each year would result in end-stage liver disease / hepatocellular cancer being halved within 10 years.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 107488 question first answered 19/10/2017 15:17:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

769704

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Accountable Care Organisations and Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what national consultations the Government has undertaken on (a) sustainability and transformation partnerships and (b) accountable care organisations.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	107452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government has not undertaken a national consultation on Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs). STPs are about local areas making decisions and ensuring National Health Service services are on a sustainable footing, and provide the best possible care for local people.</p><p> </p><p>The statutory organisations involved within STPs are accountable to local communities through their normal processes. Each is working to its own, locally appropriate timetable but many have already carried out extensive engagement with the public. In September 2016 NHS England published “Engaging local people: A guide for local areas developing Sustainability and Transformation Plans”. This document outlines the expectations on stakeholder involvement and in particular patient and public participation. A copy is attached.</p><p> </p><p>When there are proposals to substantially change the local configuration of services, NHS and local government organisations have a duty to consult their local communities. There are longstanding rules in place to assure this.</p><p> </p><p>Following an engagement exercise, NHS England produced a draft contract (a prototype variant of the NHS Standard Contract) which could be used, with NHS England’s agreement, by commissioners to contract for an accountable care organisation (ACO). The contract will be formally consulted upon in due course in compliance with NHS England’s statutory duties.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is currently consulting on a number of changes to secondary legislation which are designed to facilitate the development of ACOs. Further details can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643714/ACO-contract-reg-changes-consultation-1.pdf." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643714/ACO-contract-reg-changes-consultation-1.pdf.</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/10/2017 15:51:28 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name engag_local_people_stps.pdf title PQ107452 attached doc.
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

769706

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on tackling childhood obesity.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	107445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health, has not had any recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on tackling childhood obesity. There are ongoing discussions between officials in the Department and other Government departments on delivering our childhood obesity plan.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/10/2017 15:18:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

769707

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on implementing the National Cancer Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	107391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is committed to delivering the recommendations set out in the National Cancer Strategy and transform cancer services across the country by 2020/21. The National Cancer Programme published a progress report on the implementation of the Independent Cancer Taskforce Report on 18 October. The report provides a detailed update against our strategic priorities to transform cancer services across the country by 2021.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/10/2017 15:27:09 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

769711

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what processes his Department has put in place in the event of a (a) clinical commissioning group, (b) council or (c) NHS trust not complying with the decision of a sustainability and transformation plan.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	107376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) are partnerships made up of local organisations, including commissioners, providers and local government. Each partnership is convened by a senior leader who has agreed to chair and lead the meetings on behalf of their peers. Each footprint has agreed to its own governance and representation, and all bodies represented on the partnership have agreed to abide by its decision making process.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/10/2017 16:18:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

769718

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medical Treatments: Innovation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the system-wide cap of £20 million for NICE approved medicines proposed by NHS England with the aims and objectives of the Accelerated Access Review; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	107351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government considers that the introduction of the budget impact test in April this year for technologies with an annual budget impact greater than £20 million per year is fully in line with the aims and objectives of the Accelerated Access Review.</p><p> </p><p>Under the budget impact test, £20 million does not represent a cap on what the National Health Service will spend on any individual drug in a given year. The test is simply intended to provide an opportunity for NHS England to enter into commercial negotiations with companies to bring down the price of very high cost medicines. The opportunity for companies to negotiate with NHS England will enable new types of commercial arrangement, which means that ‘win-win’ scenarios are possible for the NHS and industry, a key aim of the Accelerated Access Review.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/10/2017 16:28:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

769884

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Tyne and Wear
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Path to Excellence proposals made by South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Partnership on (a) service users and (b) the local population for people in (i) Jarrow constituency and (ii) South Tyneside.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	107549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The ‘Path to Excellence’ is a five-year transformation of healthcare provision across South Tyneside and Sunderland being put forward under their Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs).</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not made a specific assessment on the effect of the ‘Path to Excellence’ proposals made by the Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Partnership on service users or the local population. However, in June 2017, NHS England published an STP dashboard that makes an assessment of all STP performance across England. The STP dashboard can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/stps/sustainability-and-transformation-partnerships-progress-dashboard-baseline-view/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/stps/sustainability-and-transformation-partnerships-progress-dashboard-baseline-view/</a></p><p>The Northumberland, Tyne and Wear STP is rated as category 2 - ‘advanced’ in the published STP dashboard.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/10/2017 15:31:05 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

769890

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sugar: Consumption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the amount of sugar consumed by people over 65-years of age and the health implications of that level of consumption.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	107585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The most recent data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS), published in September 2016, show that men and women aged 65 years and older derived 11.4% and 10.2% respectively of their total dietary energy from sugars. This is more than double the level recommended by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition in its report ‘Carbohydrates and Health’ report published in July 2015 which recommended that the intake of free sugars should not exceed 5% of total dietary energy. The report is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/445503/SACN_Carbohydrates_and_Health.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/445503/SACN_Carbohydrates_and_Health.pdf</a></p><p>The sugars included in the NDNS assessment are those added to food during manufacture or cooking in the form of table sugar, honey or similar products, or released from the cell structure of food during processing, such as the sugars in fruit juice.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/10/2017 15:14:07 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

769891

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sugar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to work with retailers to limit the availability of high sugar food and drink products at the point of sale.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	107586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>As part of our plan to tackle childhood obesity we launched a broad, structured and independently monitored sugar reduction programme, led by Public Health England (PHE), to remove sugar from the products children eat most. This can be achieved through reduction of sugar levels in products, reducing portion size or shifting purchasing towards lower sugar alternatives.</p><p> </p><p>Since March 2017, PHE has engaged with all of the food industry (retailers, manufacturers and the out of home sector) to discuss what industry could do to meet the 20% reduction in sugar by 2020. PHE will continue these discussions and will publish regular updates on progress towards the 20% sugar reduction.</p><p> </p><p>A list of PHE’s industry and other stakeholder engagement on this agenda was published in March and can be viewed here:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sugar-reduction-and-wider-reformulation-stakeholder-engagement" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/sugar-reduction-and-wider-reformulation-stakeholder-engagement</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 107668 question first answered 19/10/2017 16:15:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz