Asked by: Mark Pawsey (Conservative - Rugby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the findings of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Vaping’s inquiry into the UK Tobacco Harm Reduction Opportunities Post-Brexit: Achieving a Smoke-Free 2030.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This publication will be considered alongside a wide range of evidence to inform the Government’s policy on the role of e-cigarettes in helping smokers quit smoking.
Asked by: Mark Pawsey (Conservative - Rugby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Vaping’s inquiry into the UK Tobacco Harm Reduction Opportunities Post-Brexit: Achieving a Smoke-Free 2030, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of in-packet targeted communications to smokers on (a) availability of reduced-risk alternative products and (b) the potential effects of other products on health.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
No assessment has been made. Inserts in cigarette packets are banned under the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015. The Government is currently conducting a post implementation review of the Regulations which will be published later this year.
Asked by: Mark Pawsey (Conservative - Rugby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what evidence his Department will be using to reach the UK’s agreed position on Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) ahead of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control ninth Conference of the Parties (COP9) since the UK has left the EU; and if will publish that information ahead of COP9.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Ahead of the ninth Conference of the Parties (COP9) of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the Government will be considering domestic and international evidence on electronic nicotine delivery systems. This will include Public Health England’s seventh Vaping in England report, which was published in February 2021. No further information will be issued by the Department ahead of COP9.
Asked by: Mark Pawsey (Conservative - Rugby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer on 18 May 2021 to Question 170 on Tobacco, in the context of the decision of the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the Second Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP2) to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products to meet virtually, if he will extend the UK’s delegation to include (a) advocates for the Government’s harm reduction policies and (b) consumers as per the recommendations of the all-party Parliamentary group for Vaping's inquiry into COP9 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control published on 31 March 2021.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Departmental officials will be attending the virtual Ninth World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference of the Parties (COP9). Officials from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs will be attending the virtual Second Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP2). As COP9 and MOP2 are Government-led events, no other representatives will be attending.
Whilst the agenda and papers for COP9 and MOP2 have not been circulated, officials will use the opportunity to speak about the United Kingdom’s progress on the implementation of tobacco control policies. This will include, where relevant, the role of nicotine replacement therapy and e-cigarettes in supporting smokers to quit.
Asked by: Mark Pawsey (Conservative - Rugby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that the UK delegation to the Ninth Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference in November 2021 takes the opportunity to speak about the UK’s progress on the implementation of tobacco harm reduction policies and the role of vaping in making that progress.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Departmental officials will be attending the virtual Ninth World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference of the Parties (COP9). Officials from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs will be attending the virtual Second Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP2). As COP9 and MOP2 are Government-led events, no other representatives will be attending.
Whilst the agenda and papers for COP9 and MOP2 have not been circulated, officials will use the opportunity to speak about the United Kingdom’s progress on the implementation of tobacco control policies. This will include, where relevant, the role of nicotine replacement therapy and e-cigarettes in supporting smokers to quit.
Asked by: Mark Pawsey (Conservative - Rugby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children and young people in Coventry and Warwickshire have been treated by child and adolescent mental health services in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Information is not available in the format requested. Information is only available from January 2016 onwards.
Information on the number of people in contact with young people’s mental health services at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust at the end of each month from January to May 2016 is shown in the following table.
| January 2016 | February 2016 | March 2016 | April 2016 | May 2016 |
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust | 4,420 | 4,505 | 4,690 | 5,490 | 4,660 |
Source: Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS), NHS Digital
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Asked by: Mark Pawsey (Conservative - Rugby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the funding from the public purse was for child and adolescent mental health services in Coventry and Warwickshire in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Information is not available in the format requested. NHS England and local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for commissioning Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Local authorities also commission some children and young people’s mental health services, as do schools.
The Government is investing an additional £1.4 billion in an ambitious five year programme of system-wide transformation to improve children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. This comprises £150 million to develop evidence based community eating disorder services for children and young people, and £1.25 billion for improving children and young people’s mental health services and perinatal mental health services.
Most of the additional funding is for local areas to invest in transforming services. Funding was subsequently provided by NHS England to CCGs, including the three Coventry and Warwickshire CCGs, in August 2015. Allocations for 2015-16 are set out in Annex 4 of the Local Transformation Planning Guidance:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/annex-4-transformation-plan-guidance-ccg.pdf
Asked by: Mark Pawsey (Conservative - Rugby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations were carried out at the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby in (a) 2012-13, (b) 2013-14 and (c) 2014-15.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The information is not available in the format requested. The Health and Social Care Information Centre collect data by Finished Consultant Episodes (FCEs) with a main procedure and by NHS trust.
Number of FCEs with a main procedure at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, 2012-13 to 2014-15
Year | FCE's1 |
2012-13 | 100,475 |
2013-14 | 102,058 |
2014-15 | 106,832 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre
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Asked by: Mark Pawsey (Conservative - Rugby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the ratio of GPs to residents is in (a) Rugby constituency and (b) England.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The ratio of general practitioners (GPs) to residents in Rugby constituency is not collected; however, the ratio of GPs to residents in the Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is 65.6 GPs (excluding Registrars and Retainers) per 100,000 Office fpr National Statistics (ONS) resident population.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre publish an annual General and Personal Medical Services workforce census. In the last census as at 30 September 2014, there were 66.5 GPs (excluding Registrars and Retainers) per 100,000 ONS resident population in England. Data for 2015 will be published on 27 April.
Asked by: Mark Pawsey (Conservative - Rugby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of chronic lung disease are recorded as being linked to (a) butterscotch flavoured e-liquid and (b) electronic cigarettes in general.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The Department does not hold the requested information.
There are reported cases of butterscotch, and other flavours of e-liquid, containing the chemical diacetyl which has been strongly associated with a form of lung disease called bronchiolitis obliterans via occupational exposure.
This substance is not intentionally present in e-liquids and because of the potential of this chemical to cause disease, a precautionary approach should be taken. Many responsible producers have taken steps to remove this chemical from e-liquids.