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992702

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Dyslexia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of the statement by Warwickshire County Council in its document, Teaching Children & Young People with Literacy Difficulties Practice Guidance February 2018, on advice to parents in relation to the status of dyslexia as a disability that is not fully recognised in UK law.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	182142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The department have not made any formal assessment of this report. We are continuing to improve standards on literacy and to support schools and parents on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) including dyslexia.</p><p> </p><p>Schools are required under the Children and Families Act (2014) and the accompanying SEND Code of Practice to identify and address the special educational needs (SEN) of the pupils or students they support. Maintained schools are given notional SEN budgets and should use this to pay for support to children with dyslexia where required. Schools must use their best endeavours to make sure that a child with SEN gets the support they need - this means doing everything they can to meet children and young people’s SEN.</p><p> </p><p>The Equality Act (2010) is clear that a person (P) has a disability if - (a) P has a physical or mental impairment, and (b) the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on P's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. All schools have duties under the Equality Act (2010) towards individual disabled children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 182143 182888 question first answered 30/10/2018 13:34:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

989667

registered interest
date	17/10/2018
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	Alcoholic Drinks: Labelling
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’s consultation on calorie labelling for food and drink served outside the home includes alcoholic drinks.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	180670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>The consultation on mandating calorie labelling in the out-of-home sector was launched as part of a package of measures with the primary aim of reducing childhood obesity. We welcome and will consider all responses to the consultation, including whether this policy should be extended to alcoholic drinks. However, our intention at this stage is focused on food and non-alcoholic drinks.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 25/10/2018 11:59:01 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

987769

registered interest
date	15/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Energy: Waste
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what meetings he (a) has had and (b) plans to have with Rolton Kilbride on its application for a gasification plant at Hillthorn Farm in Washington and Sunderland West; and what the purpose was of the meetings that he has had.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	179159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has not met Rolton Kilbride Limited about its application for the construction and operation of a Renewable Energy Centre for the recovery of energy from non-hazardous residual waste at Hillthorn Farm, Washington, and has no plans to do so. He is currently considering requests to call in this application and propriety considerations prevent him meeting any parties with an interest in the proposal, as this may be prejudicial<strong>.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/10/2018 13:55:50 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

987825

registered interest
date	15/10/2018
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	Perinatal Mortality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the updated version of the NHS Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle will be published; and whether that update will include explicit recommendations on reducing stillbirths in twin pregnancies.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	179160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle is undergoing review by an oversight group consisting of nationally recognised experts, including representatives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society. Upon completion of the review, and subject to necessary approvals, NHS England aims to publish an updated version of the Care Bundle.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to include a new, specific element relating to multiple pregnancies in the updated version of the Care Bundle. The oversight group concluded that inclusion of an additional element specifically focusing on multiple pregnancies would and add little benefit beyond compliance with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 23/10/2018 11:32:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

986369

registered interest
date	12/10/2018
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	Usher Syndrome: Health Education
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 the Government is taking to ensure the (a) availability and (b) adequacy of health services for patients with Usher Syndrome.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	178477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>Patients with Usher syndrome have a wide range of needs, with many services being commissioned by local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). NHS England commissions more specialist services such as cochlear implants (which are suitable for some patients with Usher syndrome). NHS England also commissions the complex genetic analysis associated with Usher syndrome.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst NHS England is considering a number of new interventions for some patients with retinitis pigmentosa, some of these interventions are not suitable for patients who are also deaf or have selective frequency hearing loss because they prevent the hearing of device alarms and alerts.</p><p> </p><p>CCGs are also responsible for working with their local communities to understand the needs of the local populations and make decisions about how best to commission services that meet those needs, in partnership with other local commissioners and organisations and taking into account any relevant guidance.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/10/2018 16:30:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

986370

registered interest
date	12/10/2018
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	Health Services: Hearing Impairment and Visual Impairment
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 the Government is taking to ensure the (a) availability and (b) adequacy of the health services provided to deafblind people.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	178478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>NHS services must ensure that people with a sensory impairment receive information that they can access and understand, for example braille, and professional communication support, if they need it, to meet the Accessible Information Standard. The Care Quality Commission, when inspecting the quality of care delivered by providers looks at how services implement the Accessible Information Standard.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Children and Families Act 2014, children and young people who are deafblind may be eligible for special educational support, and health, education and social care services should work together to assess and plan to deliver this. The Care Quality Commission is inspecting all local areas over five years to assess the quality of these local arrangements for special educational need (in addition to the routine inspection of providers of health and social care).</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/10/2018 16:16:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

982598

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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	Usher Syndrome
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 the Government is taking to fund research into usher syndrome.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	176080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government supports research into common and rare diseases through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Four major research studies into Usher syndrome are taking place at the NIHR Great Ormond Street Biomedical Research Centre and the NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre investigating the molecular basis of the disease and advanced therapies for Usher syndrome.</p><p> </p><p>Rare diseases patients also benefit from the pioneering research under the 100,000 Genomes Project. As of October 2018, over 3,000 researchers in 387 United Kingdom and international institutions were part of Genomics England’s Clinical Interpretation Partnership, which have been set up improve understanding of genomic medicine and its application to healthcare; improve understanding of diseases; and lead the way to developing new diagnostics and treatments.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/10/2018 11:04:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

983137

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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	Food Standards Agency
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 provided additional resources to the Food Standards Agency for the responsibilities set out in the regulating our future programme.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	176081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has confirmed that no additional resources to support the development and delivery of the FSA’s strategic regulatory modernisation programme, Regulating Our Future, have been made available from the Department.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 16/10/2018 16:34:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

983138

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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	Food: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how will assurance service providers be (a) monitored, (b) inspected and (c) audited under the Food Standards Agency regulating out future programme.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	176082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Regulating Our Future programme aims to modernise how food businesses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are regulated to check that our food is safe and what it says it is.</p><p> </p><p>Many businesses already invest heavily in processes that provide them with assurance that they are managing their food safety and standards-related risks, and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) is exploring how that assurance data and information can be used by regulators to inform the nature, frequency or intensity of official controls within the new regulatory operating model.</p><p> </p><p>A number of industry assurance schemes have been developed and operate with associated private voluntary standards; businesses can choose to be members of schemes or not. As a regulator it is not for the FSA to dictate how standards are developed and schemes operate, however, where the FSA recognises or plans to take into account information generated as part of voluntary third party assurance schemes to inform official controls, the FSA will set robust standards for how the assurance will need to be gathered and reported and the competency requirements for those people that make the compliance assessments. The FSA will monitor and have oversight that providers are meeting those standards and will take action where standards are not met to ensure public health is protected and consumer trust is maintained. Where a recognised scheme does not meet the standards set by the FSA, and any shortcomings cannot be addressed in a timely manner, the scheme would no longer be eligible to provide information to inform official controls.</p><p> </p><p>The FSA refers to private industry assurance that meets the standards that it has set for it to be eligible to inform official controls as ‘Regulated Private Assurance’. Directly applicable European Union legislation has facilitated the use of private industry assurance for a number of years and the approach being taken by the FSA is consistent with that legislation.</p><p> </p><p>Another form of Regulated Private Assurance is National Inspection Strategies (NIS), which are already provided for under legislation, and the FSA has been working with six primary authority partnerships in a pathfinder trial to explore how this approach can work in practice and to develop standards for the robust implementation of NIS for food. The FSA has published three draft standards for the operation of NIS on its website.</p><p> </p><p>These draft standards will now be tested in practice and further refined in order to provide for monitoring and oversight of the assurance providers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 16/10/2018 16:20:06 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

983139

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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	Food: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when food safety problems emerge at a facility covered by the Food Standards Agency primary authority (PA) scheme, but not located in the jurisdiction of the local authority that is the PA, which local authority is responsible for inspecting and auditing that facility.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	176083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>Primary Authority is a scheme administered by the Office for Product Safety and Standards on behalf of my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to improve businesses’ access to advice, and co-ordination of local authority regulation of businesses, including food standards regulation. National regulators such as the Foods Standards Agency may provide support to primary authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Where a primary authority relationship exists with a food manufacturer/retailer, the local authority in whose area a facility is located remains responsible for dealing with food safety problems including enforcement of the food standards regulation in their local authority area.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 16/10/2018 16:24:43 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson