17 Dec 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
AskedWhat steps her Department is taking to support (a) young cancer patients and (b) their families in into employment.
ReplyNHS England is committed to ensuring that all cancer patients are offered Holistic Needs Assessment and Personalised Care and Support Planning, ensuring care is focused on what matters most to each person. This is being delivered in line with the NHS Comp...
17 Dec 2024·Department for Business and Trade·Answered
AskedWhat steps his Department is taking to provide employment protections for (a) young cancer patients and (b) their families.
ReplyIt is important that people with cancer are supported to return to, or remain in work, if that is what they choose to do. Workers with cancer and their carers are protected from employment discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. Their family members o...
16 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat steps his Department is taking to increase levels of awareness on the (a) signs and (b) symptoms of cancer among young people and their families.
ReplyWe are committed to getting the National Health Service catching cancer on time, diagnosing it earlier, and treating it faster, so that more patients survive this horrible set of diseases. This includes in relation to children and young people.NHS England...
16 Dec 2024·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·Answered
AskedCommunities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take to ensure that new housing developments include (a) GP surgeries and (b) other primary healthcare infrastructure.
ReplyThe National Planning Policy Framework sets out that the purpose of the planning system is to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development, including the provision of supporting infrastructure in a sustainable manner.Local development plans sh...
16 Dec 2024·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·Answered
AskedFood and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to amend the Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) Regulations to allow, by derogation, the placing on the market of UV-328 present in articles and th
ReplyDefra officials are in the process of engaging with the automotive industry in relation the Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) Regulation 2024, including the use of UV-328 by the automotive industry and the issue of derogations. Details of any furt...
16 Dec 2024·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·Answered
AskedFood and Rural Affairs, if he will publish an impact assessment of the Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) Regulations on the automotive industry.
ReplyDefra officials are in the process of engaging with the automotive industry in relation to the impacts of the Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) Regulation 2024. Details of any further steps will be published in due course.
16 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedHow the additional funding announced in the Autumn Budget 2024 for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will be allocated.
ReplyThere was no additional funding announced for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
13 Dec 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
AskedWith reference to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report entitled Women’s State Pension age: our findings on injustice and associated issues, published on 21 March 2024, if she will mak
ReplyFollowing careful consideration of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report into how changes to the State Pension age were communicated, the Government has decided we will not be paying compensation. We have made our decision on the facts o...
12 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhether the rebuild of the Royal Berkshire Hospital will include IT (a) infrastructure and (b) equipment necessary for greater research capacity.
ReplyPlans for the new Royal Berkshire Hospital as part of the New Hospital Programme (NHP) are at the early stages of development. The trust is currently developing their Strategic Outline Case for the scheme to establish their preferred way forward. This is ...
12 Dec 2024·Department for Business and Trade·Answered
AskedWhat assessment he has made of the potential impact of EU Regulation on General Product Safety (2023/988) on small businesses.
ReplyThe updated GPSR largely formalises how many businesses are already operating in the UK and the measures are therefore likely to have limited impact. However, we understand that for some businesses, the regulation will require changes, and we take any con...
12 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat data his Department holds on the average cost of (a) bowel and (b) all cancer care at stage (i) 1, (ii), 2, (iii) 3 and (iv) 4 for patients referred by the NHS in England.
ReplyThere is currently no available data on the average cost, broken down into cost per stage, of bowel cancer, or all cancer care. However, the following table shows the cost of cancer treatment in National Health Service trusts, reported over the last five ...
12 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat steps his Department is taking to tackle the future demand for cancer services in (a) the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West integrated care board and (b) England.
ReplyThe Department is committed to tackling the future demand for cancer services, and this includes cancer patients in the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West Integrated Care Board, and across England.Developing our workforce is key to responding to...
12 Dec 2024·Department for Business and Trade·Answered
AskedWhat steps his Department has taken to support small businesses with meeting the requirements of the EU Regulation on General Product Safety (2023/988).
ReplyThe updated GPSR largely formalises how many businesses are already operating in the UK and the measures are therefore likely to have limited impact. However, we understand that for some businesses, the regulation will require changes, and we take any con...
12 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWith reference to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Health in response to the question from the hon. Member of Wokingham of Wednesday 11 December, Official Report, column 290WH, ho
ReplyI refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave the Hon. Member for York Central on 11 November 2024 to Question 12437.
12 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat steps his Department is taking to improve research capacity for cancer in the (a) Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire integrated care board and b) NHS in England.
ReplyThrough the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR), the Department invests in building research expertise and capacity, and specialist facilities and support services, to support research across all aspects of human health, including cancer...
11 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat the potential cost to the public purse is of diagnostic colonoscopies per foundation trust in each year since since 2020.
ReplyThe attached table shows the potential cost to the public purse of diagnostic colonoscopies per foundation trust, each year since 2020, as well as the spend across all National Health Service foundation trusts for two groups of patient activity, specifica...
11 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat estimate he has made of the proportion of patients that have received a colonoscopy and subsequently been referred to cancer treatment pathways in each of the last five years.
ReplyNo estimate has been made regarding the proportion of patients, in each of the last five years, who received a colonoscopy, and who were then referred to a cancer treatment pathway. The following table shows the proportion of patients who received a colon...
11 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat steps (a) his Department and (b) NHS England are taking to support the use of (a) medical devices and (b) diagnostic tools after piloting; and what funding his Department provides for such too
ReplyThe Department and NHS England provide support to innovators and systems across the innovation lifecycle, from ideation and design, through to adoption and scaling. A number of policies and programmes are targeted at the adoption of medical devices and di...
10 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedIf he will make it his policy to implement the recommendations of Bowel Cancer UK's report entitled Delivering the ambitions of the NHS Long Term Plan: A review of progress of bowel cancer in Engla
ReplyThe Health Mission sets the objective of building a National Health Service fit for the future. As part of that work, and in response to Lord Darzi’s report, we have launched an extensive programme of engagement to develop a 10-Year Health Plan to reform ...
10 Dec 2024·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·Answered
AskedFood and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Wokingham to the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury on funding for surplus food redistribution, dated 30 October 2024.
ReplyA reply to the hon. Member has been prepared and will be issued very shortly.