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registered interest
date	29/01/2020
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	Drugs: Death
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 reduce drug related deaths in South Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	9678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing local needs and commissioning drug and alcohol prevention, treatment and harm reduction services to meet these needs. Public Health England (PHE) supports local authorities in this work by providing data, guidance and advice.</p><p> </p><p>PHE’s Yorkshire and Humber Centre has a work programme focused on addressing alcohol and drug-related harm in South Yorkshire. This programme includes:</p><p> </p><p>- helping local areas, such as Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham, plan and improve their local alcohol systems, services and interventions to reduce alcohol harm using the CLeaR (Challenge services, Leadership, and Results) evidence-based approach;</p><p>- supporting local areas to develop new specifications for their alcohol and drug treatment systems by providing advice, guidance and evidence to ensure that prevention, treatment and support is of consistent quality;</p><p>- supporting local areas, such as Barnsley, to develop their drug-related deaths processes in line with recent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recommendations;</p><p>- convening a homelessness and rough sleeping roundtable to bring partners together from across the region to share best practice; and</p><p>- supporting the formation and ongoing activities of Alcohol Alliances, which are local strategic partnership boards aimed at tackling the burden of alcohol harms on individuals and communities in Doncaster, Barnsley and Rotherham.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 9677 question first answered 03/02/2020 17:47:45 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1064035

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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	Drugs: Death
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 implications for his Department's policies on reducing drug-related deaths of the report entitled, Drug-related deaths in England: local authorities and how they are responding, published by the National AIDs Trust in January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	223233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>No formal assessment has been made of the National AIDS Trust report. However officials will consider its findings in the development of future drugs policy. The Government is concerned by the number of drug-related deaths and is supporting local areas to develop a more joined up approach to commissioning and delivering the range of services that are essential to supporting recovery and preventing drug-related deaths.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 25/02/2019 17:35:28 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1064036

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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	Drugs: Death
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 ensure the adequacy of funding for (a) opioid substitution therapy and (b) other health programmes to reduce drug-related deaths.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	223234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities will receive over £3 billion in 2019/20, ring-fenced exclusively for use on public health. It is for local authorities themselves to determine how best to use these resources based on their assessment of local need and with regard to their statutory duties.</p><p>Over the five years of the current spending review period we are making over £16 billion of grant funding available to local authorities in England exclusively for use on improving health.</p><p>As part of the Drug Strategy we are supporting programmes which have a positive impact on young people and adults, giving them the confidence, resilience and risk management skills to resist drug use. This includes supporting schools and educators to take action to prevent substance misuse, including by expanding the Alcohol and Drugs Education and Prevention Information Service, which provides practical advice and tools, and developing the ‘Rise Above’ digital hub. This uses interactive and engaging content to help build young people’s (11-16 years old) resilience and empower them to make positive choices for their health.</p><p>Public Health England has issued advice on providing naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, and published updated clinical guidelines for drug treatment. It has also worked with a network of treatment providers to establish good practice guidance on managing drug-related death risk factors and to improve partnership between treatment providers and other healthcare services.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 223236 question first answered 25/02/2019 17:31:10 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1064037

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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	Drugs: Death
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 assessment his Department has made of the effect of his Department’s transfer of the pooled treatment budget to the Public Health Grant in 2013 on the adequacy of funding for drug addiction treatments.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	223235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>No assessment had been made. Local authorities will receive over £3 billion in 2019/20 ring-fenced exclusively for use on public health. Our priority is to make sure the system continues to support high quality public health services and outcomes. Local authorities are best placed to make spending decisions based on the needs of their communities.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 25/02/2019 17:37:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1058752

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Drugs: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the findings of the National Aids Trust report, Drug-Related Deaths in England, published by the National Aids Trust, published on 5 February 2019; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	219400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>No formal assessment has been made of the National AIDS Trust report however officials will consider its findings in the development of future drugs policy. The Government is concerned by the number of drug-related deaths and is supporting local areas to develop a more joined up approach to commissioning and delivering the range of services that are essential to supporting recovery and preventing drug-related deaths.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 14/02/2019 17:45:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1038455

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
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	Drugs: Death
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 prevent drug-related deaths among homeless people.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	206795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022 and ending it by 2027. The Department is delivering several commitments through the Rough Sleeping Strategy, published in August 2018, to ensure that the healthcare needs of rough sleepers are addressed; this includes measures to prevent substance-misuse related deaths among homeless people: a rapid audit of health services targeted at rough sleepers to identify gaps in service provision; and the provision of up to £2 million in health funding to test models of community-based health and support services for people who are rough sleepers. Both measures include a focus on substance-misuse services.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England is taking action to improve access to drug and alcohol treatment services for homeless people with drug and alcohol problems so that they get the help that they need. They will be issuing commissioning guidance to local authorities in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/01/2019 14:14:43 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle