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Written Question
Moderna: Contracts
Monday 31st October 2022

Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Broughton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the potential effect of developing a UK vaccine research and manufacturing centre with Moderna on preparedness for future pandemics.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

In June 2022, the Government agreed heads of terms with Moderna to create a strategic partnership over the next decade. A full contract is being negotiated with Moderna, subject to approval of a full business case.


Written Question
Moderna: Contracts
Monday 31st October 2022

Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Broughton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress her Department has made on agreeing a contract with Moderna to develop a centre for vaccine research and manufacture in the UK.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

In June 2022, the Government agreed heads of terms with Moderna to create a strategic partnership over the next decade. A full contract is being negotiated with Moderna, subject to approval of a full business case.


Written Question
NHS: Per Capita Costs
Tuesday 19th December 2017

Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Broughton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2017 to Question 117247, on NHS: Per Capita Costs, what per capita expenditure on the NHS was at 2010 prices in each region of England in each of the last seven years.

Answered by Philip Dunne

The information requested is not held.


Written Question
NHS: Per Capita Costs
Tuesday 12th December 2017

Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Broughton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what per capita expenditure on the NHS was in each of the last seven years at 2010 prices.

Answered by Philip Dunne

The information requested is given in the table below.

Year

Department of Health Spend per person (cash) (£)

Department of Health Spend per person
(2010-11 prices) (£)

2010-11

1,908

1,908

2011-12

1,937

1,909

2012-13

1,967

1,900

2013-14

2,038

1,935

2014-15

2,087

1,953

2015-16

2,140

1,990

2016-17

2,182

1,984


Written Question
Patients: Death
Monday 31st October 2016

Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Broughton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's policy is on requiring NHS trusts to record avoidable deaths; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Philip Dunne

NHS Improvement and NHS England wrote to all National Health Service providers on 17 December 2015 to ask them to conduct a self-assessment of their rate of avoidable mortality.

On the same date, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State gave a Written Ministerial Statement (HCWS421) to the House in which he announced that the Care Quality Commission would undertake a wider review into the investigation of deaths and how the NHS learns from them across all types of NHS trust (acute, mental health and community trusts) in different parts of the country.

We intend to respond to the publication of that review setting out our plans for ensuring that the NHS reports and learns from such incidents, including how avoidable mortality is recorded and generates learning at a local level.


Written Question
Homeopathy
Monday 24th October 2016

Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Broughton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which clinical commissioning groups fund homeopathy treatments; and if he will provide a list of those groups.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

Information on which clinical commissioning groups fund homeopathy treatment is not held centrally.


Written Question
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Monday 12th September 2016

Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Broughton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of avoidable deaths linked to poor quality care in (a) Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, (b) North Manchester General Hospital, (c) the Royal Oldham Hospital, (d) Fairfield General Hospital and (e) Rochdale Infirmary by clinical department in each of the last five years.

Answered by Philip Dunne

The Department has made no such estimate. It is the responsibility of the respective Trust Boards, their commissioners and their regulators, and of the clinicians who work at Trusts, to ensure that the expected standards of care quality are being met.

The Care Quality Commission is carrying out a review of how National Health Service acute, community healthcare and mental health trusts investigate deaths and learn from their investigations. Information on this review is available at:

https://www.cqc.org.uk/content/our-review-how-nhs-trusts-investigate-and-learn-deaths


Written Question
Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
Tuesday 8th March 2016

Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Broughton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the extent of high consumption of alcohol by men in the UK relative to such consumption in other EU states.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The Department does not hold this information. The only international data on alcohol consumption per head can be found in the World Health Organization (WHO), Global status report on alcohol and health 2014 and the levels of consumption section in the WHO Global Information System on Alcohol and Health at:

http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_alcohol_report/en/

and

http://apps.who.int/gho/data/?showonly=GISAH&theme=main-euro


Written Question
Alcoholic Drinks: Consumption
Tuesday 8th March 2016

Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Broughton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the evidential basis for new guidelines on alcohol limits in respect of proposed metabolisation of alcohol by men and women.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The Government asked Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), to oversee a review of the alcohol guidelines, to ensure these are founded on the best science and so that the guidelines help people at all stages of life to make informed choices about their drinking.

The Guidelines Development Group considered questions of individual variation, of which one issue is variations in the rates at which individuals metabolise alcohol. Their advice is clear that the weekly guideline is advice for the general population, which individuals need to consider in the light of their own individual characteristics.

A “List of supporting evidence” on the consultation page (where all the documents, such as the reports and evidence papers are listed) can be downloaded at:

https://app.box.com/s/wlludrmim3gd83r28c4oqb3upj68cqia


Written Question
Alcoholic Drinks: Consumption
Thursday 3rd March 2016

Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Broughton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the national trend in the consumption of alcohol (a) in total, (b) by men and (c) by women since 2005; and what estimate he has made of the number of (i) men and (ii) women who are drinking above the level recommended by Chief Medical Officer alcohol guidelines.

Answered by Jane Ellison

HM Revenue and Customs alcohol factsheet October 2013 provides data on alcohol consumption. The trends on alcohol consumption since 2005 can be found in Section 2 – Clearances, 2.3 Alcohol Clearances per Adult at:

https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Pages/TaxAndDutyBulletins.aspx

An estimated 6,746,000 men and 3,549,000 women were drinking above the United Kingdom Chief Medical Officer’s alcohol guidelines prior to the recent revision, using Health and Social Care Information Centre, Health Survey for England 2014 data.