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997124

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
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	Housing: 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 steps he is taking to promote public awareness of the the effect on people's health of poor quality indoor environments.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	184965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) raises public awareness of the impacts of indoor air pollution by supporting activities that aim to change behaviour, such as the annual Clean Air Day, and is working with health partners, such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, World Health Organization and Allergy UK, to improve the evidence on the health impacts of poor indoor air quality which will enhance advice to the public. PHE also promotes awareness about carbon monoxide through the use of blog posts, press releases and social media updates.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/11/2018 16:28:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1000277

registered interest
date	02/11/2018
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	Tobacco: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to introduce licensing laws for the sale of tobacco in England.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	187384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to introduce licensing laws for the sale of tobacco in England. Earlier this year we introduced legislation providing for the licencing of tobacco products manufacturing machinery.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/11/2018 17:18:59 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1000279

registered interest
date	02/11/2018
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	Smoking: Barnsley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the statistics from the Smoking Data Guide, published by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council's research and business intelligence team in August 2016, that 21.2 per cent of adults and 10.7 per cent of 15 year olds in Barnsley smoke, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of young adults who smoke.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	187385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has a strong track record of reducing the harm caused by tobacco, based on a comprehensive approach to tobacco control, including bans on smoking in public places, and on promotion and advertising of tobacco products; high duty rates; the provision of smoking cessation services; and social marketing campaigns. The Government will maintain this comprehensive approach. The Government’s Tobacco Control Plan for England, published last year, commits to reducing smoking in 15 year olds from 8% in 2017 to 3% in 2022 and the Tobacco Control Delivery Plan, published in June 2018 sets out the various activities different agencies are taking to meet the aims of the plan.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/11/2018 17:19:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

999512

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
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	Heroin: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will allocate funding to local authorities that plan to implement heroin assisted treatment.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	187009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for making decisions on how to spend their allocation of the public health grant based on the needs of their local population. Local authorities are responsible for commissioning drug treatment to meet those needs, including heroin assisted treatment services.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/11/2018 15:08:16 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

999549

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
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	Fruit: Contamination
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 effect of fruit contamination in Australia on UK consumers.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
uin	186972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2018 answer text <p>We are aware of the reported concerns in Australia around needles in strawberries and metal in bananas. Based on the information available we do not consider this to be a food safety issue in the United Kingdom. We will continue to monitor the situation.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/11/2018 10:30:05 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

999571

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
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	Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
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 and what proportion of prescriptions were issued to people using a prepayment certificate in England in (a) 2017 and (b) the latest period for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	187148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2018 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/11/2018 10:28:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

999587

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
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	Health Services: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of NHS England’s outturn expenditure against its £25 million budget for discretionary investment in specialised services in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	187127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2018 answer text <p>NHS England’s outturn expenditure against its £25 million budget for discretionary investment in specialised services is not separately identified within the overall specialised commissioning spend. Therefore, no estimate can be made on actual spend on the discretionary investments approved for specialised services for 2016-17 and 2017-18.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/11/2018 10:02:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

999628

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
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	Influenza: Vaccination
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 25 October 2018 to Question 183928 on Influenza: Vaccination, and with reference to the guidance, Flu Vaccination Programme Delivery Guidance 2018-19 published by NHS England, what assessment he has made of appropriateness of delivering aTIV to healthcare providers by mid-November.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	187015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The adjuvanted trivalent flu vaccine is the recommended vaccine for those aged 65 years and over because it is a more effective vaccine for this age group and should offer better protection against flu compared to those previously used in the United Kingdom programme. This is explained in the Flu Vaccination Programme Delivery Guidance 2018-19 available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/flu-vaccination-programme-delivery-guidance-2018-19/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/flu-vaccination-programme-delivery-guidance-2018-19/</a></p><p> </p><p>To ensure equitable access across the UK, deliveries of this vaccine are being phased between September and November. General practices and pharmacies were informed of the phased deliveries in April 2018 and given confirmed delivery dates in August. The supply to date has been on schedule.</p><p> </p><p>With appropriate planning, all eligible patients should be able to be offered vaccine before the flu season starts.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/11/2018 15:13:14 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

999664

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
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	Meningitis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with relevant organisations and bodies on how they plan to (a) respond to and (b) implement the recommendations set out in the Meningococcal Working Group report.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	186984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2018 answer text <p>On 29 June 2018, the previous Secretary of State (the Rt. hon. Jeremy Hunt MP) wrote to all the organisations who were identified to take forward the recommendations in the report by the Meningococcal Working Group to confirm what actions they will take in response. Organisations were asked to respond by the end of September.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently considering the responses and plan to publish a summary of responses in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/11/2018 10:19:14 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

999668

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
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	Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what relative priority he attaches to non-trial evidence compared to evidence from randomised clinical trials to inform NICE and NHS commissioning guidance.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	187005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2018 answer text <p>The way in which the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) assesses and prioritises evidence is set out in the methods and processes for each of its work programmes. The NICE guideline development manual outlines the different types of evidence NICE looks at and how it is reviewed in a systematic transparent way, including observational and real-world evidence. A copy of ‘Developing NICE guidelines: the manual’ is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/11/2018 10:16:57 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name developing-nice-guidelines-the-manual.pdf title Developing NICE guidelines the manual
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma