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date	22/01/2019
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	Eyesight: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage parents and carers to have their children's eyes examined by an optometrist from the age of three as recommended by the Association of Optometrists.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	211175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not recommend that all children have their first sight test around the age of three.</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom National Screening Committee recommends that vision screening should be offered to all children aged four to five years rather than routine sight tests for younger children. This approach is supported by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists as well as the British and Irish Orthoptic Society. Local authorities (LAs) have responsibility for commissioning this as local screening services. Public Health England has made available guidance to support LAs to commissioning such services.</p><p> </p><p>All children under the age of 16 are entitled to free National Health Service sight tests. Information about the availability of NHS funded sight tests for children is widely available including being publicised on the NHS website (formerly NHS Choices). The NHS Business Services Authority also provides information on eligibility for NHS funded sight tests. Optical practices providing NHS sight tests are required to display a notice and a leaflet showing the services available under the NHS as well as listing the groups who are entitled to free NHS funded sight tests.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 211176 question first answered 28/01/2019 17:16:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

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date	20/10/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's direct spending on procurement was with companies defined as small businesses according to the definition given by the Annex to the European Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 for each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
uin	211175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>DFID does not record information on the classifications of business below the overall category ‘small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SME’s) therefore we cannot respond to the level of detail you have specified.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne grouped question UIN 211174 question first answered 23/10/2014 16:45:45 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab