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1013157

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date	23/11/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Telecommunications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the UK telecoms industry.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	195120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>In the event of a deal there should be no changes during the implementation period. Telecoms is one of the most liberalised services internationally. The UK benefits from the World Trade Organisation's General Agreement on Trade in Services which makes clear that governments and regulators should not discriminate against telecoms companies of other countries and should ensure fair and equal access to public telecoms networks and services. The UK and the EU are committed to these rules and the government therefore does not anticipate any major changes for UK companies operating in the EU.</p><p> </p><p>In the unlikely event of no deal, the government has published two technical notices on telecoms. More information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/what-telecoms-businesses-should-do-if-theres-no-brexit-deal/what-telecoms-businesses-should-do-if-theres-no-brexit-deal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/what-telecoms-businesses-should-do-if-theres-no-brexit-deal/what-telecoms-businesses-should-do-if-theres-no-brexit-deal</a></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 30/11/2018 10:43:11 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1012269

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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	Public Health: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to local authorities for the local authority public health grant in each year between 2014 and 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	194695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Public Health Grant Allocation (£ billion)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2.663</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2.795</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>3.031</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>3.387</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>3.304</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>3.219</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p><sup>1</sup>Funding public health services for children aged 0-5 was transferred from the NHS to local authorities from October 2015.</p><p><sup>2</sup>Includes funding retained by the Greater Manchester local authority as part of a business rate retention pilot not allocated as grant.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/11/2018 11:20:57 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1012281

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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	Vitamins
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 guidance his Department has issued to GPs on advising patients to increase their intake of vitamins.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	194632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England has not issued any recent guidance to general practitioners on advising patients to increase their intake of vitamins.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/11/2018 11:01:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1012282

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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	Antibiotics
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 guidance his Department has issued to GPs on prescribing antibiotics.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	194633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not publish clinical guidance. Multiple resources providing guidance on antimicrobial stewardship in primary care have been published by partners across the health system over the life of the current United Kingdom antimicrobial resistance strategy.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/11/2018 11:05:36 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1012283

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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	Measles: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on vaccinating children against measles.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	194634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>Measles vaccination is offered to all children within a month of their first birthday (at ages 12 – 13 months) with a second dose before starting school, usually at three years four months (or soon after), as part of the routine measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination programme. Children up to the age of 18 who missed, or only partially completed, their earlier MMR vaccination are eligible for a catch-up MMR vaccination.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/11/2018 11:22:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1012299

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to allocate new moneys to fund in full the pay award for teaching staff in Catholic sixth-form colleges; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	194581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>Further education (FE) providers, including Catholic sixth-form colleges, are independent institutions responsible for setting their own staff salaries, and the government has no current plans to allocate money to assist with any increases in their teachers’ pay.</p><p>However, we know that FE faces cost pressures, and we are working with the sector to look closely at funding, to see what more we can do and to inform Spending Review planning.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 30/11/2018 11:30:05 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1012300

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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	Epilepsy: Drugs
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 his Department has made of the availability of essential epilepsy medicines from the EU during the transition period for the UK leaving the EU; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wantage
tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
uin	194639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has now agreed the Withdrawal Agreement with the European Commission. As a consequence, the Department does not expect market access to medicines for the United Kingdom to change under the terms of that agreement during the implementation period, which will run from March 2019 until December 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not expect to see significant changes to the continuity of medicine supply in the intervening period, although we will be monitoring this closely.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/11/2018 11:03:01 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot

1012359

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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	Genito-urinary Medicine: Women
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 take steps to introduce a women’s reproductive health workforce strategy.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	194729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England’s reproductive health action plan will be published in 2019 and aims to demonstrate sustainable improvements in key reproductive health outcomes and reduce inequalities. There has been an extensive period of consultation with different organisations and at both national and local level to inform the action plan which will be delivered through five work-streams:</p><p>- Strategic leadership and accountability;</p><p>- Data and evidence;</p><p>- Information and messaging;</p><p>- Proportionate universalism of care; and</p><p>- Workforce.</p><p> </p><p>The Workforce work stream will be a first step in the development of a women’s reproductive health workforce strategy.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/11/2018 11:21:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1012361

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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	Primary Health Care: Allied Health Professions
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 therapists were working in primary care in (a) March 2017 and (b) the most recent date for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	194731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>Data for the workforce providing mental health therapy services in the community via the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme are available from the 2015 IAPT Workforce Census, which recorded 8,588 IAPT staff, by headcount, equivalent to 7,205 full time equivalents (FTEs), as at 30 April 2015.</p><p>More recent data are not yet available. NHS England is undertaking work to develop an up-to-date baseline for the number of mental health therapists working in primary care.</p><p>NHS Digital also publishes data on the numbers of therapists and physiotherapists directly employed in general practice in March 2017 and in June 2018. The data are shown in the following table.</p><p>These numbers do not include therapists employed by the National Health Service to provide services in primary care settings. Finalised data for September 2018 will be published in December 2018.</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>March 2017</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>June 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Headcount</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Therapists</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Physiotherapists</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital, General and Personal Medical Services</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/11/2018 10:56:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1012367

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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	Contraceptives
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 his Department has made of the number of contracts for the delivery contraceptive services that have been terminated in each (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency in each year since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	194737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>Contracts for the delivery of contraceptive services are not monitored centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/11/2018 10:58:59 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth