Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were given routine digital screening for diabetic retinopathy in the last 12 months.
Answered by Will Quince
31 December 2022 3,009,511 people with diabetes were offered routine digital screening (RDS) for diabetic retinopathy. From those 2,356,894 (78.3%) people attended a RDS appointment where images were captured.
Health is a devolved matter and figures provided are for the NHS in England only.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of children have been given the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination in each of the last three years.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Coverage of childhood vaccines is measured when children reach their first, second and fifth birthdays.
The following table shows annual data from 2019/20 to 2021/22 for MMR vaccine coverage (percentage uptake) in England:
| MMR1 at two years | MMR1 at five years | MMR2 at five years | |||
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % |
2021/22 | 552,604 | 89.2% | 641,941 | 93.4% | 588,853 | 85.7% |
2020/21 | 569,675 | 90.3% | 654,197 | 94.3% | 601,053 | 88.6% |
2019/20 | 589,306 | 90.6% | 651,969 | 94.5% | 598,626 | 86.8% |
Source: NHS Digital ‘Childhood Vaccination Coverage Statistics’
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on reducing rates of childhood obesity.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
New regulations on out-of-home calorie labelling for food sold in large businesses, including restaurants, cafes and takeaways, came into force in April 2022. Restrictions on the placement of less healthy products in key selling locations in store and online came into force on 1 October 2022. The location restrictions are the single most impactful obesity policy for reducing children’s calorie consumption and are expected to accrue health benefits of over £57 billion and provide National Health Service savings of over £4 billion over the next 25 years.
We are also working with the food industry to make further progress on reformulation and ensure it is easier for the public to make healthier choices. We have seen important successes, including the average sugar content of drinks subject to the Soft Drinks Industry Levy decreasing by 46% between 2015 and 2020. There has also been success in some categories of the sugar reduction programme, including a 14.9% reduction of sugar in retailer- and manufacturer-branded breakfast cereals and a 13.5% reduction in yoghurts and fromage frais.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many pupils were involved in self-harm incidents in each of the two years (a) before and (b) after the introduction of relationships, sex and health education in schools.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The requested data is not available as health service datasets in England do not record whether a person is a school pupil.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2023 to Question 191251, if he will direct Public Health England to estimate the number of people projected to have diabetes in 2030 based on recent data.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We intend to update the projected estimates of people with diabetes in due course, however we are still awaiting sufficient validated data for us to do this.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of people diagnosed with dementia in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The data requested is not collected centrally.
NHS England can provide a count of patients with a recorded diagnosis of dementia. This is a count of patients with a dementia diagnosis on their general practice record at the specified point in time irrespective of when the diagnosis was made.
The dementia diagnosis figures for all ages for April of each year for the last 10 years are shown in the table below:
Date | Recorded dementia diagnoses for all ages |
April 2023 | 460,518 |
April 2022 | 443,869 |
April 2021 | 432,129 |
April 2020 | 453,377 |
April 2019 | 469,025 |
April 2018 | 450,106 |
April 2017 | 446,515 |
April 2016 | 413,782 |
April 2015 | 410,092 |
April 2014 | 331,824 |
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are diagnosed as being diabetic; and what estimate he has made of the number of such people in 2030.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The below table shows the most recent data on the number of people in England with a diabetes diagnosis.
In 2016, Public Health England published the estimated number of people aged 16 years old or older, who would have diabetes in England in 2030, would be 4.8 million, a prevalence of 9.3%
Diabetes type | England |
Type 1 | 270,935 |
Type 2 and other | 3,336,980 |
Total | 3,607,920 |
Notes:
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Tobacco Control Plan's aim to deliver the ambition of a smoke-free society by 2030 includes vaping.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The ambition for England to be Smokefree by 2030 covers smoking prevalence only. It does not cover the prevalence of vaping.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the treatment of children who have recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England is working with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on the evaluation of two products for Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), birch bark extract for skin wounds associated with dystrophic and junctional EB and the gene therapy Beremagene geperpavec for skin wounds associated with dystrophic EB. If any of these treatments are given a positive recommendation by NICE, NHS England will ensure that service provision is in place to deliver these treatments in line with the terms of the NICE mandate.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to discourage underage vaping.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
We have regulations in place to discourage underage vaping. The law protects children through restricting sales of vapes to over 18 years old only, limiting nicotine content, refill bottle and tank sizes, labelling requirements and through advertising restrictions.
However, given the changing circumstances surrounding vapes, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) has launched a call for evidence to identify opportunities to reduce the number of children accessing and using vape products. The call for evidence will close on Tuesday 6 June. Following this, the Government will consider a range of options based on the evidence provided, including potential changes to vaping policy and regulations. In October 2022, we published new content on the potential risks of vaping for young people on the FRANK and Better Health websites and we have provided input to educational resources produced by partners including the PSHE Association.
We are also developing a new resource pack for schools on vaping which will be made available by July.