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438497

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date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Fluoride: Drinking Water
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their view on the merits of reducing the concentration of fluoride in water supplies subject to fluoridation schemes from 1.0 to around 0.7 part per million, in the light of the experience of countries such as Canada, the Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong and Singapore.
tabling member printed	Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
uin	HL4593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>Public Health England advise that there is no current evidence from monitoring data to support a variation of the target level for fluoride in drinking water.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:25:48 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	3446 label Biography information for Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

438500

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Diabetes: Podiatry
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 November (HL3958), what plans they have to ensure that podiatric services are available to diabetics who need them; and what criteria they are recommending that Clinical Commissioning Groups use to differentiate between those diabetics who will continue to require podiatric services and those who will not.
tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
uin	HL4596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>Podiatry services are commissioned locally by clinical commissioning groups working with local partners and based on the need of the local population, resources available and evidence based practice. Treatment decisions should always be made by doctors based on a patient’s individual clinical needs.</p><br /><p>Preventing diabetes and promoting the best possible care for people with diabetes is a key priority for this Government and is part of the 2016/17 Mandate to NHS England. Building on the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, the Department of Health and NHS England are exploring options for ensuring a sustained focus on improving the management and care of people with diabetes.</p><p>The new National Diabetes Foot Care Audit, a module of the National Diabetes Audit, aims to establish the extent to which national guidelines on the management of diabetic foot disease are being met. The audit will provide local teams with the evidence needed to tackle any identified differences in practice which will lead to an overall improvement in management and outcomes for patients. Local and national level results will be available in March 2016. However, we do know that there has been an increase in the proportion of Trusts with multidisciplinary diabetic foot care teams, from around 60% in 2011 to over 70% in 2013.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:24:21 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

438501

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	UnitingCare Partnership
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how the NHS Strategic Projects Team is to be held to account for the advice it gave to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group, and to the NHS Commissioning Board, on the contract for older people's services in Cambridge and Peterborough.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL4597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>NHS England advises that it will be commissioning an investigation into the circumstances leading up to the termination of the contract between Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group and UnitingCare Partnership LLP to deliver urgent care for the over 65s and adult community services. This will include the role of the Strategic Projects Team. NHS England is also considering how similar contracts will be managed and assured in the future.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL4598 question first answered 21/12/2015 17:22:33 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

438502

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	UnitingCare Partnership
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to establish an independent external assessment of the reasons for the failure of the contract for older people's services in Cambridge and Peterborough; and what plans they have for a moratorium on further large-scale procurements until lessons from that contract have been learnt.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL4598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>NHS England advises that it will be commissioning an investigation into the circumstances leading up to the termination of the contract between Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group and UnitingCare Partnership LLP to deliver urgent care for the over 65s and adult community services. This will include the role of the Strategic Projects Team. NHS England is also considering how similar contracts will be managed and assured in the future.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL4597 question first answered 21/12/2015 17:22:33 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

438504

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	care.data Advisory Group
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the current membership of the care.data Advisory Group.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL4600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The care.data Advisory Group met between March 2014 and October 2015 and has now been disbanded. The group was Chaired by Ciarán Devane, who at the time was a non-executive director of NHS England, and included representatives from the following organisations:</p><br /><p>- Academy of Medical Royal Colleges;</p><p>- Association of Medical Research Charities;</p><p>- Big Brother Watch;</p><p>- British Heart Foundation;</p><p>- British Medical Association;</p><p>- HealthWatch England;</p><p>- Hurley Group;</p><p>- Kings College London;</p><p>- Kings Fund;</p><p>- medConfidential;</p><p>- MIND;</p><p>- National Institute for Health Research;</p><p>- National Voices;</p><p>- Patients4Data;</p><p>- Royal College of General Practitioners;</p><p>- Royal College of Psychiatrists;</p><p>- Clinical Commissioning Groups;</p><p>- UCL Partners; and</p><p>- Wellcome Trust.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:26:06 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

438505

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which hospitals (1) the Prime Minister, (2) the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and (3) the Secretary of State for Health, have visited in an official capacity over the last 12 months, and what was the date of each such visit.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL4601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The Prime Minister regularly visits hospitals and health centres and meets with medical professionals. Details of all the United Kingdom official visits which have been made by the Prime Minister are published quarterly. His UK official visits between 1 January 2015 and 31 March 2015 are attached can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prime-minister-official-visits-july-2014-to-march-2015" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/prime-minister-official-visits-july-2014-to-march-2015</a></p><p>Details of all the official UK visits which have been made by Chancellor of the Exchequer are published quarterly. His official visits between 1 January 2015 and 31 March 2015 are attached and can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel-1-january-to-31-march-2015" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel-1-january-to-31-march-2015</a></p><p>The Secretary of State for Health has undertaken the following visits to hospitals in an official capacity since January 2015:</p><p>15 January 2015: Luton and Dunstable University Hospital</p><p>29 January 2015: Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust</p><p>5 February 2015: Colchester Hospital</p><p>5 February 2015: Queen's Hospital, Barking, Havering and Redbridge</p><p>12 February 2015: Hereford County Hospital</p><p>27 February 2015: Buccleuch Lodge - University Hospitals of South Manchester Trust</p><p>6 March 2015: Princess Alexandra Hospital</p><p>6 March 2015: Lister Hospital</p><p>20 March 2015: Dover Hospital</p><p>12 June 2015: Papworth Hospital</p><p>26 June 2015: Tameside Hospital</p><p>17 July 2015: National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery- University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust</p><p>23 July 2015: Royal Free Hospital</p><p>23 July 2015: Whipps Cross Hospital</p><p>30 July 2015: Royal London Hospital</p><p>9 September 2015: St Thomas Hospital</p><p>12 November 2015: Guy's and St Thomas Hospital</p><p>7 December 2015: Wrightington Hospital</p><p>9 December 2015: University College London Hospital</p><p>15 December 2015: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Prime Minister UK official visits July 2014 to March 2015.xlsx title PM Visits 2 file name HMT Ministers' meetings, hospitality, gifts and overseas travel 1 January to 31 March 2015.pdf title HMT Minister's Visits question first answered 21/12/2015 17:33:31 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

438507

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
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 8 December (HL3846), how much grant the Department of Health will provide to Action on Smoking and Health in the current financial year, and whether they will place a copy of any grant application and award letter in the Library of the House.
tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
uin	HL4603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department will provide a grant of £150,000 to Action on Smoking and Health in the 2015/16 financial year. This grant is awarded under Section 64 of the Health and Social Care Act 1968.</p><br /><p>A copy of the signed award letter, including the detailed deliverables of the grant, has been attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:42:12 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Redacted final signed grant award letter ASH 2015-16 2.pdf title ASH Reward Letter
tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

438508

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
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 role of Action on Smoking and Health in providing the secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health, and in particular whether such activities are designed to influence (1) Parliament, Government or political parties, or (2) legislative or regulatory action.
tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
uin	HL4604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment of the role of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) in providing the secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health.</p><br /><p>The conditions applicable to grants awarded to ASH for work to support tobacco control are set out in the grant award letters. The Department has made clear that none of this funding is to be used for activities designed to influence Parliament, Government or political parties or to influence legislative or regulatory action. ASH’s compliance with the conditions of the grant is assessed at grant monitoring meetings as well as in the final full year grant monitoring and governance reports.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 17/12/2015 17:19:06 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

438509

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government on how many occasions between 2013 and 2015 the Department of Health received representations from Action on Smoking and Health regarding the standardised packaging of tobacco products.
tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
uin	HL4605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>To identify what representations the Department has received about standardised packaging between 2013 and 2015 would require extensive searching of Departmental records to identify which representations were relevant and would result in disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:41:34 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

438510

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many items of correspondence the Department of Health has received from (1) the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health, and (2) the Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, in each of the last five years that originated from a postal or email address belonging to the group Action on Smoking and Health.
tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
uin	HL4606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department of Health’s central correspondence database recorded 90 items of correspondence from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health received in the last five years that originated from a postal or email address belonging to the group Action on Smoking and Health.</p><br /><p>There was no record of any such correspondence having being received from the Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee in this period.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:42:23 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby