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 proportion of children aged five had at least one missing, decayed or filled tooth in each of the last eight years .
Answered by Steve Brine
Data on five year old dental health is not collected annually. Data on the proportion of five year olds with at least one missing, decayed or filled tooth because of decay available for the last eight years is in the following table. These data are not comparable due to changes in methodology between the surveys.
Data collection for the 2018/19 survey is currently underway and results will be published in spring 2020.
Data from the surveys of five year old children can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.nwph.net/dentalhealth/5year%20docs.aspx
Year | Proportion of five year old children with one or more teeth affected by decay |
20121 | 28% |
20132 | 25% |
20153 | 24.7% |
20173 | 23.3% |
Notes:
- Caution is advised when making comparisons of these data as they come from different data sets
- 1 Source: former NHS Dental Epidemiology Programme
- 2 Source: Child Dental Health Survey, 2013
- 3 Source: Public Health England Dental Public Health Intelligence Programme
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 clinics for the treatment of problem gambling are planned to open between now and 2023; and where they are planned to be located.
Answered by Steve Brine
NHS England announced in the NHS Long Term Plan that it will invest in expanding National Health Service specialist clinics to help more people with serious gambling problems. This will build upon the two current clinics offering NHS treatment (a long-established clinic in London and newly launched Leeds clinic).
Further details will be set out as part of a national implementation programme as mentioned in the Long Term Plan.
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 put their Type 2 diabetes into remission and stopped taking medication for their condition in each of the last five 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, how many people under 21 years old have developed Type 2 diabetes in each of the last five years.
Answered by Steve Brine
The following table details the number of people who were diagnosed with type 2 or other diabetes when aged 20 years or under in England and Wales in each of the five calendar years 2013 to 2017:
Calendar year | Number of people |
2013 | 605 |
2014 | 690 |
2015 | 770 |
2016 | 905 |
2017 | 1,030 |
Source: National Diabetes Audit (NDA)
Notes:
- The NDA does not hold comprehensive data on children with diabetes;
- Disclosure control has been applied to all figures, as per the NDA publication. All numbers are rounded to the nearest five, unless the number is one to seven, in which case it is rounded to five.
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 health of sweeteners used in foods as an alternative to sugar.
Answered by Steve Brine
Sweeteners are used in a variety of everyday foods in the United Kingdom, including energy reduced and sugar free foods. But before they are permitted for use, all sweeteners must first undergo a thorough safety evaluation conducted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which includes assessing the likely impact on health.
EFSA makes its assessment on the basis that all foods permitted to contain sweeteners have them at the maximum permitted level, this enables it to assess the highest possible levels of exposure and set the amount of a substance that can be consumed daily during a lifetime without any appreciable risk to health in the general population.
Evidence considered as part of Public Health England’s report ‘Sugar reduction: The evidence for action’ found that replacing foods and drinks sweetened with sugar with those containing no or low-calorie sweeteners could be useful in helping people to manage weight as they reduce the calorie content of foods and drinks whilst maintaining a sweet taste. A copy of this report can be accessed at the following link:
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 average level of sugar content in baby food products available in the UK.
Answered by Steve Brine
Product ranges targeted at babies and young children are now part of the government’s reduction and reformulation programme. This work is being led by Public Health England who will consider the sugar content of baby food products in the United Kingdom as part of its review of the evidence for action. Publication of an approach is expected later in 2019.
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 of his Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 196185 on Department of Health and Social Care: Meetings, if he will publish the (a) names of the people who attended those meetings and (b) minutes of the meetings.
Answered by Steve Brine
The attached table shows the names of Senior Civil Servants and external attendees at an equivalent or higher grade from these organisations, and the job title of attendees below this grade.
The Department does not hold a central record of the notes of these meetings.
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 received treatment on the NHS for gambling-related health conditions in December of each year since 2010.
Answered by Steve Brine
Information in the format requested is not available. Data on the number of finished admissions episodes (FAEs) with a primary or secondary diagnosis of pathological/compulsive gambling for the last five years is set out in the following table. This does not necessarily reflect the number of patients as people may attend on more than one occasion.
Year | FAEs |
2013-14 | 65 |
2014-15 | 89 |
2015-16 | 86 |
2016-17 | 72 |
2017-18 | 107 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital
A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.
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 to Question 127571, on Food: Advertising, how he intends for the nutrient profiling model to be applied to social media advertising.
Answered by Steve Brine
In the second chapter of the Government's Childhood Obesity Plan, published in June, we committed to consult on introducing a 9pm watershed on TV advertising of high fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) products and similar protection for children viewing adverts online. Defining what food and drink would be in scope of any further advertising restrictions will be a part of our consultation. In the case of social media advertising, as with all non-broadcast media, the Committees of Advertising Practice Code already requires that advertisers use the Nutrient Profiling Model to define HFSS products.
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, on what date officials of his Department have held meetings with representatives of Kellogs in the last 12 months.
Answered by Steve Brine
Representatives from Kellogg’s have attended two large stakeholder events organised by Public Health England; one on 3 November 2017 to discuss data to be included in the first sugar progress report, and one on 5 March 2018 to launch the calorie reduction programme and publication of ‘Calorie reduction: The scope and ambition for action’.