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1503657

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an impact assessment of the regulations prohibiting regulated manufacture of medical cannabis and CBD products on patient safety.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2022 answer text <p>The manufacture of cannabis-based medicines is allowed under the appropriate Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and Home Office licences. Cannabis-based medicines must comply with all applicable requirements and high standards of manufacture that apply to all other medicines to ensure patient safety.</p><p>In 2018, the Government amended the law to allow specialist doctors to prescribe unlicensed cannabis-based products for medicinal use, where clinically appropriate, with an accompanying impact assessment published by the Home Office. The Government must consider advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) before making any further amendments to the law in this area. At the request of the Home Office, the ACMD have recently reviewed this legislation and concluded that no amendments are currently required.</p><p>Cannabidiol (CBD) in its pure form is not a controlled drug. However, many consumer CBD products also contain varying amounts of controlled cannabinoids due to difficulties in isolating pure CBD. The Home Office has sought the ACMD’s advice on a legal framework exempting CBD products with a defined trace percentage of controlled cannabinoids from control under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The ACMD responded on December 17 2021 and the Government is currently considering this advice.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 45491 question first answered 21/09/2022 13:46:46 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1503788

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to reform regulations relating to the production of cannabis-based medicinal products to support UK patients and businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45491
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2022 answer text <p>The manufacture of cannabis-based medicines is allowed under the appropriate Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and Home Office licences. Cannabis-based medicines must comply with all applicable requirements and high standards of manufacture that apply to all other medicines to ensure patient safety.</p><p>In 2018, the Government amended the law to allow specialist doctors to prescribe unlicensed cannabis-based products for medicinal use, where clinically appropriate, with an accompanying impact assessment published by the Home Office. The Government must consider advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) before making any further amendments to the law in this area. At the request of the Home Office, the ACMD have recently reviewed this legislation and concluded that no amendments are currently required.</p><p>Cannabidiol (CBD) in its pure form is not a controlled drug. However, many consumer CBD products also contain varying amounts of controlled cannabinoids due to difficulties in isolating pure CBD. The Home Office has sought the ACMD’s advice on a legal framework exempting CBD products with a defined trace percentage of controlled cannabinoids from control under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The ACMD responded on December 17 2021 and the Government is currently considering this advice.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 45233 question first answered 21/09/2022 13:46:46 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1666598

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2023
	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	Defibrillators: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking to steps to help increase public access to defibrillators in areas of deprivation with a high incidence of cardiac arrest.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	203876
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s £1 million Community Automated External Defibrillators (AED) fund will provide an estimated 1,000 new defibrillators across England, with the potential for this to double as successful applicants will be asked to match the funding they receive partially or fully.</p><p>As of 22 September 2022, community organisations can now apply for a grant to fund an AED for their local area. Applications for funding will be submitted to Smarter Society and the London Hearts Charity, who will assess each application, ensuring that each AED is installed in areas where there is a clear need for the device such as high footfall areas or rural locations with extended ambulance response times. Priority will be given to applications that are considered a cardiac health hotspot with high levels of deprivation and low numbers of AEDs.</p><p>All AEDs granted by the fund must be registered on The Circuit, which is the British Heart Foundation’s national defibrillator database.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 203877 203878 question first answered 25/10/2023 14:04:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1666599

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2023
	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	Defibrillators
	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 help ensure equal access to defibrillators across the country.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	203877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s £1 million Community Automated External Defibrillators (AED) fund will provide an estimated 1,000 new defibrillators across England, with the potential for this to double as successful applicants will be asked to match the funding they receive partially or fully.</p><p>As of 22 September 2022, community organisations can now apply for a grant to fund an AED for their local area. Applications for funding will be submitted to Smarter Society and the London Hearts Charity, who will assess each application, ensuring that each AED is installed in areas where there is a clear need for the device such as high footfall areas or rural locations with extended ambulance response times. Priority will be given to applications that are considered a cardiac health hotspot with high levels of deprivation and low numbers of AEDs.</p><p>All AEDs granted by the fund must be registered on The Circuit, which is the British Heart Foundation’s national defibrillator database.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 203876 203878 question first answered 25/10/2023 14:04:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1666601

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2023
	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	Defibrillators
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that public access defibrillators are registered on The Circuit.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	203878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s £1 million Community Automated External Defibrillators (AED) fund will provide an estimated 1,000 new defibrillators across England, with the potential for this to double as successful applicants will be asked to match the funding they receive partially or fully.</p><p>As of 22 September 2022, community organisations can now apply for a grant to fund an AED for their local area. Applications for funding will be submitted to Smarter Society and the London Hearts Charity, who will assess each application, ensuring that each AED is installed in areas where there is a clear need for the device such as high footfall areas or rural locations with extended ambulance response times. Priority will be given to applications that are considered a cardiac health hotspot with high levels of deprivation and low numbers of AEDs.</p><p>All AEDs granted by the fund must be registered on The Circuit, which is the British Heart Foundation’s national defibrillator database.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 203876 203877 question first answered 25/10/2023 14:04:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1645309

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2023
	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	NHS: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with his counterpart in the Scottish Government on the lessons learned from the implementation of Scan4Safety in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	189959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Mandate 2023 sets out the requirement for the National Health Service to adopt digital scanning. By March 2024, all trusts should adopt barcode scanning of high-risk medical devices and submission to the national, mandatory Medical Device Outcome Registry (MDOR) either directly or via a supporting electronic health record (EHR) or inventory management system that can support registry data submission. The registry will be used to improve patient safety and outcomes in procedures that use high risk medical devices.</p><p>MDOR has native barcode scanning, including Unique Device Identifier (UDI) barcodes, so will result in the whole of England having an available UDI scanning solution without having to implement a separate system. The registry was launched in May 2023 and will accept bulk uploads from existing providers’ solutions, including Scan4Safety, that meet the data quality and completeness requirements. The Outcomes and Registries programme will support provider adoption of digital solutions that enable medical device traceability on the electronic patient record.</p><p>The Secretary of State has exchanged letters with the Scottish Government setting out the UK Government’s commitment to delivering the recommendation of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review and on the approach for MDOR. The intention is that each Devolved Administration has the option to ‘opt in’ to existing or future technical registry developments in MDOR, building on the different data programmes and local approaches to traceability and patient outcome monitoring being taken at Devolved Administration levels.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 189960 question first answered 26/06/2023 14:33:53 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1645310

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2023
	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	NHS: Safety
	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 his Department has made on the roll-out of the Scan4Safety initiative.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	189960
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Mandate 2023 sets out the requirement for the National Health Service to adopt digital scanning. By March 2024, all trusts should adopt barcode scanning of high-risk medical devices and submission to the national, mandatory Medical Device Outcome Registry (MDOR) either directly or via a supporting electronic health record (EHR) or inventory management system that can support registry data submission. The registry will be used to improve patient safety and outcomes in procedures that use high risk medical devices.</p><p>MDOR has native barcode scanning, including Unique Device Identifier (UDI) barcodes, so will result in the whole of England having an available UDI scanning solution without having to implement a separate system. The registry was launched in May 2023 and will accept bulk uploads from existing providers’ solutions, including Scan4Safety, that meet the data quality and completeness requirements. The Outcomes and Registries programme will support provider adoption of digital solutions that enable medical device traceability on the electronic patient record.</p><p>The Secretary of State has exchanged letters with the Scottish Government setting out the UK Government’s commitment to delivering the recommendation of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review and on the approach for MDOR. The intention is that each Devolved Administration has the option to ‘opt in’ to existing or future technical registry developments in MDOR, building on the different data programmes and local approaches to traceability and patient outcome monitoring being taken at Devolved Administration levels.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 189959 question first answered 26/06/2023 14:33:53 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1548834

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
	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 cost implications for patients suffering from chronic pain of accessing private medicinal cannabis prescriptions.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	104217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government revised the law to allow specialist doctors to prescribe cannabis-based products, where clinically appropriate and in the best interests of patients. However, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence does not recommend that cannabis-based medicines are offered to manage chronic pain due to lack of evidence on safety and efficacy and recommends further research. Until such evidence is available, no assessment can be made on cost effectiveness. The funding of private prescriptions is the responsibility of patients seeking those treatments.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 104218 question first answered 14/12/2022 12:02:16 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1548837

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
	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 he is taking to ensure that patients suffering from chronic pain can access affordable prescriptions for medicinal cannabis.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	104218
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government revised the law to allow specialist doctors to prescribe cannabis-based products, where clinically appropriate and in the best interests of patients. However, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence does not recommend that cannabis-based medicines are offered to manage chronic pain due to lack of evidence on safety and efficacy and recommends further research. Until such evidence is available, no assessment can be made on cost effectiveness. The funding of private prescriptions is the responsibility of patients seeking those treatments.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 104217 question first answered 14/12/2022 12:02:16 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1109337

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Deduction from Earnings Orders have been set up at the point of application since changes were made to the collection and enforcement powers of the Child Maintenance Service in (a) the UK (b) Scotland and (c) Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	240593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Information on whether a Deduction from Earnings Order was set up at the point of application is not readily available and to provide it will incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>You might be interested in Table 11: Enforcement Actions which highlights Enforcement Actions used by the Child Maintenance Service, including the number of ongoing Deduction from Earnings Orders or Requests.</p><p>These statistics are published online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-the-2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-the-2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 08/04/2019 13:03:11 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day