Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many European Health Insurance Cards in circulation are issued to people under 16 years of age.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
There are 4,644,621 valid European Health Insurance Cards (EHICs) in circulation held by people who are under 16 years of age as at 17 July 2019.
For the period 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019, there were 21,204 EHIC claims and 331 Provisional Replacement Certificate claims entered on the system for people under the age of 16 at the time of the claim.
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many claims were made for people under the age of 16 through the European Health Insurance Card scheme in the most 12 months for which data is available.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
There are 4,644,621 valid European Health Insurance Cards (EHICs) in circulation held by people who are under 16 years of age as at 17 July 2019.
For the period 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019, there were 21,204 EHIC claims and 331 Provisional Replacement Certificate claims entered on the system for people under the age of 16 at the time of the claim.
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on human health of exposure to silica dust; what (a) guidance and (b) legislative measures are in place to control human exposure to silica dust; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
Many studies have indicated that silica dust can be harmful when inhaled. In the United Kingdom, all workplaces must comply with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002, which sets a workplace exposure limit for silica. Occupational health and safety is under the remit of the Health and Safety Executive, who have issued guidance and advice to help employers manage risks and to raise awareness of the importance of controlling exposure to harmful materials at work which is available at the following link:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg463.pdf
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many European Health Insurance Cards in circulation have been issued to people with a registered disability.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The Department does not hold the data on the number of people with a registered disability. This is not part of the eligibility criteria that is requested during the application process.
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many European Health Insurance Cards in circulation have been issued to people with a registered disability in each of the nations of the UK.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The Department does not hold the data on the number of people with a registered disability. This is not part of the eligibility criteria that is requested during the application process.
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Steve Brine
The information requested is not centrally held.
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
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 26 February 2019 to Question 224304 on Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements, how many European Health Insurance Cards have been issued to people over the age of 70 in each of the nations and regions of the UK.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The number of active European Health Insurance Cards issued to people over 70 is as follows:
Northern Ireland | 60,132 |
England | 2,391,876 |
Scotland | 219,675 |
Wales | 140,439 |
The data by region is not available.
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of suicides among young people under 21 in each of the last five years that had a link to content seen on social media.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Data on the number of suicides that had a link to content seen on social media is not available.
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people under 21 years old have developed Type 2 diabetes in each of the last five years in each region of England.
Answered by Steve Brine
The following table shows the number of people who were diagnosed with ‘Type 2 or other diabetes’ when aged 20 years or under in each of the five calendar years 2013 to 2017, by Strategic Clinical Network.
Strategic Clinical Network | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
East Midlands | 30 | 45 | 65 | 65 | 75 |
East of England | 55 | 80 | 70 | 85 | 85 |
Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire | 25 | 45 | 35 | 55 | 60 |
London | 100 | 115 | 135 | 135 | 170 |
North West Coast - Cheshire Warrington and Wirral | 15 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 10 |
North West Coast - Lancashire and South Cumbria | 15 | 20 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
North West Coast - Merseyside | 15 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 10 |
Northern England Clinical Network | 35 | 35 | 40 | 50 | 50 |
South East | 30 | 40 | 45 | 55 | 60 |
South West | 40 | 40 | 45 | 70 | 65 |
Thames Valley | 25 | 20 | 30 | 30 | 35 |
Wessex | 30 | 25 | 30 | 40 | 50 |
West Midlands | 80 | 80 | 90 | 95 | 140 |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 80 | 75 | 85 | 95 | 110 |
No clinical commissioning group available in the data to map to Clinical Network | 10 | 15 | 15 | 25 | 35 |
Source: National Diabetes Audit (NDA)
Note:
Disclosure control has been applied to all figures, as per the NDA publication - all numbers are rounded to the nearest 5, unless the number is 1 to 7, in which case it is rounded to ‘5’.
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding from the £20.5 billion of investment announced in the NHS Long Term Plan will be allocated to clinics dedicated to the treatment of problem gambling.
Answered by Steve Brine
The allocation of funding to the expansion of specialist treatment for gambling related harm announced in the NHS Long Term Plan has yet to be determined by NHS England.