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748203

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date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Parkinson's Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Royal Colleges on any connection between Parkinson's disease and faulty immune cells.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>No discussions have taken place between Ministers of the Department and the Royal Colleges on this matter.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/07/2017 09:29:33 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

748204

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Perinatal Mortality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to further reduce the incidence of still births.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State is committed to reducing the rates of stillbirth in England and improving maternity outcomes for women and babies. In November 2015, he announced a national ambition to halve the rates of stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths and brain injuries that occur during or soon after birth by 2030. The Safer Maternity Care: next steps towards the national maternity ambition, published in October 2016, then set out a suite of initiatives, including actions to tackle issues of culture, leadership, and learning, in order to improve safety in maternity units and the outcomes and experience of care for mothers and babies.</p><p>The action plan included the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle which is designed to support midwives and other clinicians to identify risks and implement care to prevent stillbirths and neonatal deaths in a focused way. The four interventions included in the Care Bundle are:</p><p> </p><p>- Reducing Smoking In Pregnancy;</p><p>- Detecting Fetal Growth Restriction;</p><p>- Raising Awareness Of Reduced Fetal Movement; and</p><p>- Improving Effective Fetal Monitoring During Labour.</p><p>The Care Bundle is being tested and piloted by volunteer maternity care providers. NHS England will then consider how to support implementation nationwide, as part of the Maternity Transformation Programme.</p><p>The Department has also funded the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford to develop a national standardised Perinatal Mortality Review Tool to support local perinatal death reviews. This is an important contribution to the efforts to reduce stillbirths as the tool will ensure systematic, multidisciplinary, high quality reviews are carried out on the circumstances and care leading up to and surrounding each stillbirth and neonatal death. It will then enable maternity and neonatal staff to identify emerging themes across a number of deaths to support learning and changes in the delivery and commissioning of care, to improve future care and prevent future deaths which are avoidable.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 12/07/2017 13:35:55 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

748205

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pregnancy: Paracetamol
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Royal Colleges on the potential effect of pregnant women taking paracetamol and its effect on unborn boys.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) continuously monitors the safety of all medicines on the market in the United Kingdom and seeks independent expert advice from the Commission on Human Medicines on important new safety issues. The MHRA is aware of recently published research looking at the effect on male offspring of giving paracetamol to pregnant mice. All new evidence on the safety of paracetamol is kept under close review and this latest study will be carefully considered and any new advice will be communicated.</p><p> </p><p>There have not been any discussions with the Royal Colleges on this issue yet.</p><p> </p><p>Pregnant women should speak to their doctor or midwife before taking any medicine, including paracetamol.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/07/2017 09:46:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

748233

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle violent sex abuse against women from Asian and Pakistani groups in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government recognises that sexual violence affects women from all communities across the UK. These are devastating crimes, and we are committed to ensuring that every victim has access to the specialist support they need, and that everything is done to bring offenders to justice. We want every report of rape to be treated seriously from the point of disclosure, every victim to be treated with dignity and every investigation and prosecution to be conducted thoroughly and professionally.</p><p> </p><p>Our cross-Government violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy recognises that some sectors of society, such as Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, can experience additional barriers to accessing support.</p><p> </p><p>We have pledged increased funding of £100 million through to 2020 to support our commitment to tackling VAWG, including protecting funding to 85 Rape Support Centres and a new £17m VAWG Service Transformation Fund.</p><p> </p><p>This increased funding and our support for local areas to improve commissioning will help to ensure that the needs of BAME victims are met through specialist support.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 10/07/2017 16:19:25 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

748234

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Terrorism: Victim Support Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what long-term assistance is available for victims of terrorism in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making sure that victims of terrorism and bereaved families receive the best possible support both in the immediate aftermath, and in the long term. The appalling attacks in Manchester and London, just as previous attacks such as in Sousse, Tunisia, demonstrate how vital it is that support is available to victims and their families.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017, we established a cross-HMG Victims of Terrorism unit to co-ordinate support to UK citizens directly affected by terrorist events at home or overseas. It is working across Government, the voluntary sector and with local authorities to ensure that support to victims of terrorism is comprehensive, coordinated and clearly communicated.</p><p> </p><p>We have developed gov.uk webpages</p><p>(see <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/terror-attacks-support-for-people-affected" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/terror-attacks-support-for-people-affected</a>) to provide comprehensive advice to victims and to signpost them to support services in the UK. We have also been working closely with local authorities to highlight the support available, and will make sure that payments from the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund and the UK Solidarity Fund do not affect benefits payments.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 12/07/2017 15:03:05 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

748257

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Iraq: Reconstruction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support the Government is providing to ensure that historical and church buildings in Mosul are rebuilt.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK condemns Daesh's destruction of historical and religious buildings in Iraq, whether they be archaeological sites, churches, mosques or temples.</p><p>The UK's Cultural Protection Fund of £30 million is designed to build capacity and capability in conflict zones in order to protect cultural heritage. Over £4 million from the fund has been awarded to Iraq across four projects. £3 million of this has been allocated to the British Museum's Rescue Archaeology Project. This project supplements the skills of a team of Iraqi national heritage sector workers to assess and record the condition of heritage sites and carry out rescue archaeology as a preliminary to reconstruction at sites damaged by Daesh. The first cohort of Iraqi archaeologists completed their training in 2016 and the second cohort completed their training earlier this year in London.</p><p>The UK is also funding: the University of Manchester, working with the State Board for Antiquities and Heritage in Iraq, to survey and document the pre-Islamic Alexandrian city of Charax, as well as 14 other sites in Iraq; and the University of Liverpool to record, preserve and promote understanding of Yezidi heritage and identity.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/07/2017 12:07:39 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

748284

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Prime Minister
answering dept id	23
answering dept short name	Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Prime Minister
hansard heading	Grenfell Tower: Fires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Prime Minister, when the Government plans to make available the findings of the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Statement I made about the Grenfell Tower Fire on 29 June 2017, HCWS18.</p> answering member constituency Maidenhead answering member printed Mrs Theresa May question first answered 11/07/2017 15:22:54 answering member 8 label Biography information for Mrs Theresa May
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon