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346821

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS England: Correspondence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that NHS England produces prompt and comprehensive replies to correspondence from MPs and Members of the House of Lords.
tabling member printed	Lord Wills
uin	HL59
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is an independent arm’s length body of the Department. NHS England has signed up to a Public and Parliamentary Accountability protocol where it is committed to answering all correspondence in 18 working days, in line with the Whitehall standard.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Adherence to the protocol is verified by the Department, and where standards are not met the Department will raise these at regular accountability meetings with NHS England and agree improvement actions required.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 03/06/2015 13:25:31 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	260 label Biography information for Lord Wills

346901

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity: Babies and Pregnant Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will focus his Department's anti-obesity strategy on pregnant women and babies.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>Tackling obesity, particularly in children, is one of our major priorities and we know that pregnancy and early years are one of the many influences on children’s weight. Progress has been made in recent years, but we know we have much further to go and we will put forward our plans in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 298 question first answered 01/06/2015 13:50:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

346902

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Public Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to reform the Responsibility Deal.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>Improving public health requires collective action by all – government, businesses and individuals. Under the Public Health Responsibility Deal, 780 organisations committed to actions which are having a significant impact in improving the nation’s health and enabling people to make healthier choices. As the Government develops its priorities, we will expect to continue working in partnership with organisations across all sectors to ensure that we collectively can make the greatest impact on individuals’ health.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 01/06/2015 14:39:10 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

346903

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to tackle childhood obesity.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>Tackling obesity, particularly in children, is one of our major priorities and we know that pregnancy and early years are one of the many influences on children’s weight. Progress has been made in recent years, but we know we have much further to go and we will put forward our plans in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 296 question first answered 01/06/2015 13:50:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

346917

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mastectomy: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women in each age cohort have had mastectomies in each of the last five years; and how many of them have had reconstructive breast surgery.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	46
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>The available information is provided in the attached table.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 02/06/2015 15:34:45 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer attachment 1 file name FCEs- mastectomy and breast reconstruction 2009-14.xlsx title FCEs- mastectomies & breast reconstruction 2009-14
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

346923

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	IVF
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to prohibit embryonic gene-editing technologies developed over the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, as amended, already addresses this technology.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 01/06/2015 14:03:41 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

346926

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medical Records: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data protection measures are in place when sending patient data to a country that does not appear on the European Commission's list of countries recognised as providing adequate protection.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	81
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>All National Health Service organisations are expected to comply with their existing obligations for data protection. Organisations that consider sending data overseas must follow existing information governance guidance that includes a comprehensive assessment of the risks and mitigations possible. Such risk considerations should be undertaken on a case by case basis by the NHS organisation concerned and may vary according to the data and overseas locations involved. Use of the standard contract clauses provided by the Information Commissioner should also be made, with appropriate data assurance checks implemented.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/06/2015 14:12:02 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

346929

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Drugs: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of plans in Scotland to double the New Medicines Fund; and what his policy is on creating such a fund in England.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	83
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>It is a matter for the Scottish Government to decide how to use the apportioned payments they receive from the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has no plans to create a New Medicines Fund in England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government established the Cancer Drugs Fund to ensure that cancer patients in England have better access to life-extending and improving drugs not routinely funded by the National Health Service. Between October 2010 and December 2014 the Fund has helped over 67,000 cancer patients.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is implementing all of the commitments in the PPRS on improving access to innovative medicines commensurate with the outcomes they offer patients. In addition, NHS England and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry are pressing ahead with plans to maximise the benefits of the PPRS by improving access to and optimising the use of medicines to improve patient outcomes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition the Accelerated Access Review is looking at a range of proposals for accelerating access to innovative medicines to NHS patients and the potential for securing more value from the NHS research infrastructure in commissioning innovative medicines.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/06/2015 13:57:06 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

346935

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in what ways the rebate from the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme has been spent in England; and if he will make it his policy that any future rebate will be allocated for treatments for (a) cystic fibrosis and (b) other long term conditions.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	84
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) payments for England all go back into spending on improving patients’ health and care. The Department includes the expected PPRS payments in setting the NHS England allocations in advance of each year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Decisions on how NHS England medicines budgets are spent are taken by NHS England clinical leadership on the basis of clinical priorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/06/2015 14:15:00 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

346958

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to respond to the Sixth Report of the Public Administration Select Committee of Session 2014-15, entitled Investigating Clinical Incidents in the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harwich and North Essex
tabling member printed	Mr Bernard Jenkin
uin	26
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>We welcome the inquiry carried out by the Public Administration Select Committee into investigating clinical incidents in the National Health Service. We are considering the conclusions and recommendations in the report carefully and will respond shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 03/06/2015 11:42:57 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	40 label Biography information for Sir Bernard Jenkin