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	registered interest
	date	06/09/2016
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of their plan to reduce England’s rate of childhood obesity, in the light of the absence of the regulation of advertising and price promotions in that plan.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL1622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>The policies in the plan are informed by the latest research and evidence, including from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition report <em>Carbohydrates and Health</em>, Public Health England’s evidence package <em>Sugar reduction: the evidence for action</em>, other government departments, debates in this House and various reports from key stakeholders including the Health Select Committee.</p><p> </p><p>We are confident that the measures we have announced will make a real difference and estimate could reduce childhood obesity rates by about a fifth (330,000) over the next ten years. Though we are clear in our goals and firm in the action we will take, the launch of this plan represents the start of a conversation, rather than the final word.</p><p> </p><p>A copy of <em>Carbohydrates and</em> <em>Health</em> and<em> Sugar reduction: the evidence for action </em>are attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name SACN Carbohydrates and Health.pdf title Carbohydrates and Health 2 file name PHE Sugar reduction The evidence for action.pdf title PHE Sugar Reduction question first answered 13/09/2016 16:31:18 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

649073

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many referrals to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme were recorded as ended in each clinical commissioning group area in each year since 2010, (1) in total, and (2) which related to people who were assessed as meeting caseness.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL3699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>The number of referrals to Improving Access to Psychological Therapies in each clinical commissioning group (CCG) since 2010 in total, is published and available from the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies dataset held by NHS Digital. Table 1 covers <em>Referrals received, entering treatment, and finishing a course of treatment in the year, 2015-16, counts, by clinical commissioning group</em>. A copy is attached.</p><p>The number of referrals to Improving Access to Psychological Therapies recorded as ended in each CCG, in each year, since 2010 which related to people who were assessed as meeting ‘caseness’ is not available in the format requested. CCGs only existed since 1 April 2013. The number of people who completed treatment who were initially at ‘caseness’ is published, but not the number of those whose treatment was recorded as ended.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 12/12/2016 12:26:00 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name HL3699 table 1.xls title HL3699 TABLE 1
	tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

420496

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Eyesight: Testing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the report <i>An equal right to sight </i>by SeeAbility, and the subsequent response by the College of Optometrists and others, what steps they are taking to ensure that children with learning difficulties have regular and full ocular examinations.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL2471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2015 answer text <p>The recent NHS England “Improving Eye Health and Reducing Sight Loss Call to Action” consultation called for a debate on how to tackle eye care inequalities and specifically those experienced by people with learning disabilities. NHS England recently commissioned a service in London that will provide sight tests and dispensing of glasses at a number of special schools. This service is being provided by SeeAbility and is governed by the existing regulatory framework for primary eye care services in England. NHS England will work with SeeAbility to review current levels of provision and determine the extent to which children with learning disabilities struggle to access high street optical practices.</p><br /><p>A copy of the consultation is attached and can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/qual-clin-lead/calltoaction/eye-cta/" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/qual-clin-lead/calltoaction/eye-cta/</a></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 22/10/2015 13:18:24 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name nhs_belongs.pdf title Eye Consultation
	tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

436990

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS 111: East Midlands
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 28 October (HL2778), what has been the outcome of the investigation into "serious allegations" about the 111 service in the East Midlands.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL4456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>We understand that NHS England has received a detailed and independent report on the whistle-blower’s allegations about the NHS 111 services in Derbyshire which is currently being considered. NHS England will formally respond later this month. We are assured that no immediate risks to patient care have been identified and local commissioners report that service levels are effective and appropriate.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 17/12/2015 17:07:13 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

619440

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Doctors: Migrant Workers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 26 July (HL1281), of the 1,095 doctors from the EEA who have been unable to demonstrate to the GMC that they have sufficient language skills to practise safely in the UK, how many are currently performing medical work in the UK for which a licence to practice is not required; and what medical work those doctors are performing.
	tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL2548
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>A doctor cannot undertake any meaningful form of mainstream medical work in the United Kingdom if they do not have a licence to practise. It is possible for an unlicensed doctor to work in a healthcare role that the law has not reserved either to licensed doctors or to another regulated profession (for example, as a note taker or in some types of teaching or research). The General Medical Council does not hold any employment information about doctors who are not licensed to practise in the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 07/11/2016 14:23:18 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

453522

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Human Embryo Experiments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government,  further to the Written Answers by Lord Prior of Brampton on 27 January (HL5039) and 12 February (HL5911), whether they are now able to confirm that the stated aims of the application recently approved by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to perform genome editing in human embryos by means of CRISPR-Cas9 had never included "increasing knowledge about the causes of miscarriages"; and which of the purposes as set out in the previous Written Answer were instead deemed to be fulfilled by the project.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL6224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s role in granting a research licence is to ensure that any project fulfils one of the purposes set out in the legislation. The Person Responsible applied for the same purposes as those which were granted. These are set out in paragraph 1.18 of the minutes of the Licence Committee meeting held on 14 January 2016; a copy of the minutes is attached.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 07/03/2016 14:13:05 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name 20160225 - HL6224 - Lord Alton - HFEA CRISPR Cas9 - Minutes.pdf title Licence Committee Minutes
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

692149

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, with respect to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, what was the NHS's annual clinical negligence bill for the 2016–17 financial year and what it is projected to be for the 2017–18 financial year; whether any statistical correlations between negligence payments made by NHS Trusts and care quality indicators have been examined; and if so, what are those correlations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL5443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>Information to answer these questions is not held in this format by either the Department or the NHS Litigation Authority (NHS LA). The NHS LA records information on clinical negligence claims against the National Health Service but it does not record specific information on claims relating to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or cardiac rhythm management devices. It is therefore not possible to provide information on clinical negligence costs relating to these conditions or to provide information on any statistical correlations between negligence payments made by NHS trusts in relation to these conditions and care quality indicators.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL5446 question first answered 23/02/2017 14:50:35 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

649075

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, with regard to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, what were the initial average anxiety and depression scores for (1) all referrals that ended which related to people who were assessed, (2) all referrals ended which related to people who entered treatment, and (3) all referred persons completing treatment, in each clinical commissioning group area in each year since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL3701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2016 answer text <p>This data is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 13/12/2016 16:51:58 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

714921

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	IVF
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, with reference to paragraphs 2.8, 2.9 and 3.17 of the minutes of 9 March 2017 of the Licence Committee of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, regarding the follow-up of children born following pronuclear transfer between embryos, who is responsible for the follow-up programme in NHS England; what health, genetic and epigenetic parameters are to be measured; what assessment they have made of the potential for long-term medical problems to only become evident after five years of age; whether they intend to conduct follow-ups beyond five years of age; and whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of the full documented processes that are in place setting out how follow-ups will be carried out.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL6409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2017 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that the guidance on the follow up of any children born following mitochondrial donation is set out in paragraph 33.33 in Guidance Note 33 of the Authority’s code of practice. This requires the centre to have a documented process setting out how children born from mitochondrial donation will be followed up, where the patients have consented to follow-up. These should include long-term medical follow-up of the children born. A copy of Guidance Note 33 is attached.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has agreed funding of £8 million over five years for an evaluative commissioning programme of mitochondrial donation, working closely with the partner organisations such as the Wellcome Trust.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 06/04/2017 10:57:08 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name CoP_June_2016_GN33.pdf title Guidance Note 33
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

714754

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	IVF
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, with reference to paragraph 2.8 of the minutes of 9 March 2017 of the Licence Committee of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) regarding babies born following pronuclear transfer between embryos, what procedures are in place to (1) identify whether a child born following pronuclear transfer is born with (a) a mitochondrial disease, (b) a genetic or epigenetic abnormality, (c) a birth defect, or (d) some other adverse outcome, (2) notify the HFEA in cases of any such adverse outcome, and (3) identify any such adverse outcome and notify the HFEA where consent for follow-up has not been granted.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL6374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2017 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that, as set out in Guidance Note 33 of the Authority’s code of practice, centres carrying out mitochondrial donation are required to have documented processes in place setting out how the health of children born from mitochondrial donation will be followed up. A copy of Guidance Note 33 is attached.</p><p> </p><p>If the centre becomes aware that any child born as a result of mitochondrial donation has a mitochondrial disease, birth defect, genetic abnormality or if there has been any other adverse outcome, the centre must report this to the HFEA in accordance with the adverse incidents requirements set out in Guidance Note 27 of the code of practice. A copy of Guidance Note 27 is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name CoP_June_2016_GN33.pdf title Guidance Note 33 2 file name CoP_June_2016_GN27.pdf title Guidance Note 27 question first answered 06/04/2017 10:53:18 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool