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1356736

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date	20/09/2021
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	Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: Steroid Drugs
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 policies of the University of Edinburgh's recent study which found that a common steroid could reduce heavy menstrual bleeding.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	51694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2021 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement will await guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on whether the findings from this research should be used to develop best practice care. Currently clinical commissioning groups have a duty to give due regard to implementing NICE’s guidance. NHS England and NHS Improvement encourage all providers to adopt NICE’s guideline NG88, ‘Heavy menstrual bleeding: assessment and management’, which covers assessing and managing heavy menstrual bleeding and also helps healthcare professionals to investigate the causes.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 12/10/2021 10:41:18 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1356738

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
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	Lung Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 July 2021 to Question 36638, on Lung Cancer: Diagnosis, how many people have (a) been invited for screening as part of the lung health check programme and (b) attended a lung cancer screening appointment in each of the 19 programme locations since the launch of that programme.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	51696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>As of July 2021, the latest available data, the National Health Service has invited 125,680 people for targeted lung health checks and performed more than 38,000 lung health checks.</p><p>The following table shows the number of people invited for a lung health check within each of the 18 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) where data is available and the number of health checks carried out following the invitation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of invitations July 2021</p></td><td><p>Number of lung health checks July 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Knowsley CCG</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Luton CCG</p></td><td><p>9,124</p></td><td><p>2,581</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Hull CCG</p></td><td><p>9,102</p></td><td><p>3,255</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Southampton CCG</p></td><td><p>10,929</p></td><td><p>3,338</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Thurrock CCG</p></td><td><p>8,464</p></td><td><p>2,060</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Doncaster CCG</p></td><td><p>9,318</p></td><td><p>2,431</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG</p></td><td><p>1,181</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Corby CCG</p></td><td><p>1,599</p></td><td><p>703</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Mansfield and Ashfield CCG</p></td><td><p>1,270</p></td><td><p>677</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Newcastle Gateshead CCG</p></td><td><p>554</p></td><td><p>512</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Salford CCG</p></td><td><p>11,890</p></td><td><p>5,668</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Manchester CCG</p></td><td><p>36,571</p></td><td><p>9,111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG</p></td><td><p>4,148</p></td><td><p>1,193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Hillingdon CCG</p></td><td><p>5,452</p></td><td><p>1,606</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Sutton CCG</p></td><td><p>3,041</p></td><td><p>506</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Stoke CCG</p></td><td><p>8,989</p></td><td><p>3,714</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Liverpool CCG</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Coventry and Warwickshire CCG</p></td><td><p>4,048</p></td><td><p>964</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>125,680</p></td><td><p>38,363</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p>* Data for Liverpool CCG and Knowsley CCG are still being validated.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 49142 question first answered 18/10/2021 12:27:08 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1356744

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
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	Fluoride: Drinking Water
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the findings of the paper entitled Assessment of Lake Water Quality and Eutrophication Risk in an Agricultural Irrigation Area: A Case Study of the Chagan Lake in Northeast China published by Xuemei Liu et al on 14 November 2019, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies on water fluoridation of the research findings that increased environmental fluoride levels contribute significantly to eutrophication.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	51647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2021 answer text <p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has advised that eutrophication of lakes is driven by excess nutrients, phosphorus and nitrogen, the main sources of which are agriculture and sewage effluent. Fluoridation of drinking water supplies is not considered to have an effect and the low levels of fluoride that occur naturally in most waters in the United Kingdom are not felt to be an influence on the risks and impacts of eutrophication.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 12/10/2021 09:25:51 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 22528 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1356745

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to prevent illegal channel crossings in small boats.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	51847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2021 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Gentleman to the answer given to the Member for Romford on 20 September. These crossings are dangerous and unnecessary, and we are determined to bring them to an end and to tackle the criminality behind them.</p><p>From January to September 2021, Immigration Enforcement has arrested 46 individuals engaged in small boats activity, with 8 individuals already convicted and a further 94 investigations ongoing. Recognising that much of the criminality involved lies outside of the UK, we are also supporting wider law enforcement activity to tackle the threat of organised immigration crime. In its first 12 months, the Joint Intelligence Cell was involved in almost 300 arrests relating to small boats activity in France.</p><p>We must ensure that those involved in people smuggling are punished with the severity it rightly deserves. The Nationality and Borders Bill (Nationality and Borders Bill - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament (https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3023)) will enable this and will also act as a much stronger deterrent for those tempted to pursue that despicable path. These long overdue reforms will break the business model of the criminal trafficking networks and make their activities unviable.</p><p>There remains an immediate challenge and a need to stop the boats leaving France in the first place and we are working closely with the French to tackle these crossings, both on a policy and operational level. In July 2021 UK/French joint action led to strengthened law enforcement deployments along the coast of France, more than doubling again equipped police resource focused on addressing illegal migration; enhanced intelligence-sharing; greater use of surveillance technology; and more border security at key transport infrastructure along the Channel coast.</p><p>Progress so far this year between January and September 2021 has resulted in the French stopping more than 15,000 people from crossing. This is a significant increase on the same point last year.</p><p>Our New Plan for Immigration will address the challenge of illegal migration for the first time in over two decades through comprehensive reform of our asylum system, making big changes and building a new system that is fair but firm.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 29/10/2021 09:21:24 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1356749

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
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	Smoking: Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State and Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's data on vaping published on 4 March 2020 and 23 February 2021 which show that the number of people vaping in England has plateaued, whether he plans to increase communications to smokers on ways to quit tobacco, including the use of less harmful alternatives to smoking.
tabling member constituency	Rugby
tabling member printed	Mark Pawsey
uin	51686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2021 answer text <p>Public Health England’s smoking cessation marketing activity, including the current ‘Stoptober’ campaign, signposts to a range of quitting support such as replacing tobacco with electronic cigarettes. The updated National Health Service Quit Smoking app launched in advance of Stoptober will continue beyond the campaign with ongoing development planned.</p><p>In 2022, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities will publish an independent review of the up-to-date evidence on the safety of e-cigarettes. The review will include information about the relative harm of smoking and vaping. New guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, to be published in November 2021, will advise the public and health professionals on the most effective ways of stopping smoking and reducing its burden of death and disease.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 11/10/2021 13:11:45 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4052 label Biography information for Mark Pawsey

1356751

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
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	General Practitioners: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress the Government is making on rolling out evening and weekend GP appointments.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Kate Griffiths
uin	51869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2021 answer text <p>General practice appointments in the evenings and weekends are available across the country. Patients can see a doctor, nurse or other member of a practice team at a time that is convenient to them, 365 days per year including on bank holidays.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 21/10/2021 14:36:33 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4773 label Biography information for Kate Kniveton

1356755

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
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	Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing (a) a single, established dataset to monitor referrals for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) assessments and treatments and (b) b) a maximum waiting time standard from referral for an assessment of ADHD to the point of diagnosis.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	51730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2021 answer text <p>We have no plans to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence do not recommend a maximum waiting time standard from referral for an assessment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to the point of diagnosis.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 11/10/2021 11:45:05 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1356758

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Clean Steel Fund: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he has taken to engage with civil society on the allocation of the Clean Steel Fund.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	51665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2021 answer text <p>The Department announced the Clean Steel Fund (CSF) in 2019 and it is currently in development. In 2019 we carried out a Call for Evidence seeking views and supporting evidence to help us develop the detailed design of the Fund, including on barriers to realising clean steel ambitions, and the opportunities to be gained in overcoming these. This Call for Evidence was open to all and we received responses from civil society, including trade associations and academics. These responses are being considered as the policy is designed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to engage with a range of interested parties on the steel sector in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 06/10/2021 06:00:30 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1356759

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department plans to take to support the decarbonisation of the UK steel industry between now and 2023 ahead of the Clean Steel Fund’s allocation.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	51666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2021 answer text <p>The Department announced the Clean Steel Fund (CSF) in 2019 and it is currently being designed and developed.</p><p> </p><p>Other schemes are available to support the steel sector which are live now, including the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF). Through grant funding, the IETF can support energy efficiency upgrades and decarbonisation engineering studies, which are needed to prepare the sector for more ambitious decarbonisation schemes in the future.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 05/10/2021 08:10:02 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1356761

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Notices of Intent have been issued to Afghan asylum seekers in the UK (a) prior to and (b) since the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on 15 August 2021.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
uin	51893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2021 answer text <p /><p /><p /><p /><p>The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of notices of intent issued and can be found online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2021/how-many-people-do-we-grant-asylum-or-protection-to#inadmissibility" target="_blank">How many people do we grant asylum or protection to? - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>A breakdown of these figures into nationality is not currently available.Afghan asylum seekers continue to be issued with notices of intent where appropriate. Inadmissibility rules apply to all nationals where it is considered that there has been an earlier presence or connection to a safe third country.</p><p>We have been clear that people should claim asylum in the first safe country that they reach and should not seek to enter the UK illegally. Our New Plan for Immigration underpins this principle.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 28/09/2021 16:23:42 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry