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433235

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date	30/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Docetaxel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS trusts make Docetaxel chemotherapy treatment available.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	18107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>Information on which treatments are provided by different National Health Service trusts is not collected centrally.</p><br /><p>Commissioners are legally required to fund docetaxel for the treatment of hormone-refractory metastatic prostate cancer (where the disease becomes unresponsive to hormone treatment) as recommended in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s technology appraisal guidance.</p><br /><p>NHS England has advised that it does not routinely commission docetaxel chemotherapy for the treatment of hormone sensitive prostate cancer. However, an associated policy statement is currently being developed and NHS England expects this to be published in the early part of 2016, subject to appropriate approvals and governance arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 03/12/2015 16:22:59 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

433236

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Patients: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding is available to assist with the travel costs of patients who have to travel more than 100 miles to receive a particular treatment for their condition.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	18108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>The Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme allows patients on low incomes and those in receipt of specific qualifying benefits or allowances to be reimbursed in part or in full for costs incurred in travelling to receive certain NHS services. Eligible patients can claim payment of travel expenses to appointments made to receive non-primary medical and non-primary dental services when referred by a primary care practitioner. There are no mileage restrictions on this scheme.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 03/12/2015 14:52:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

432625

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the effect on the household income of a family in receipt of tax credits with (a) three, (b) four and (c) five children of the Government's proposals to limit claims for tax credit and universal credit to two children as announced in the Summer Budget 2015 and the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	17935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>At Summer Budget the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that families will no longer be able to claim additional support through Child Tax Credit or Universal Credit for third or subsequent children in a family where the child is born after April 2017. In addition families making a completely new claim to Universal Credit after April 2017 will no longer be entitled to support for their third or subsequent children.</p><br /><p>A family currently claiming Child Tax Credit with three or more children will see no change to their household income because of this change. This policy will only affect families claiming Child Tax Credit where they have a third or subsequent child on or after 6 April 2017.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 03/12/2015 16:32:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

432628

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect on the household income of a family with one earner and two children which becomes a new claimant of universal credit and is not migrating from a legacy benefit of the Government's proposed changes to universal credit announced in the Summer Budget 2015 in each of the next four financial years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	17940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>This issue is a matter for the Department for Work and Pensions. I understand that the Minister for Work and Pensions has responded to an identical question tabled by the hon Member.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 03/12/2015 17:04:54 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves