Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the UK delegation to the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control will be announced; and who will form the UK delegation.
Answered by Maggie Throup
The Department has no plans to provide a submission to the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties' secretariat ahead of the Conference. The Deputy Director for Addictions and Inclusion Policy at the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities will lead the United Kingdom delegation with support from officials at the UK Mission in Geneva.
Applications to attend as an observer are a matter for the Conference secretariat and consequently, we are not aware of exclusions of third party representatives.
Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will place a copy of the UK's submission to the Secretariat in the Library in advance of the forthcoming Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Answered by Maggie Throup
The Department has no plans to provide a submission to the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties' secretariat ahead of the Conference. The Deputy Director for Addictions and Inclusion Policy at the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities will lead the United Kingdom delegation with support from officials at the UK Mission in Geneva.
Applications to attend as an observer are a matter for the Conference secretariat and consequently, we are not aware of exclusions of third party representatives.
Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timeframe is for rolling out the covid-19 booster vaccine to people identified as being clinically extremely vulnerable.
Answered by Maggie Throup
The first COVID-19 booster vaccination was administered on 16 September from 20 September, over 1.5 million people were invited to receive the vaccine.
Booster vaccines will be offered to individuals who received vaccination in phase one of the vaccination programme in priority groups one to nine, including all those aged 16 to 49 years old with underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk of severe COVID-19. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advises that the dose is offered no earlier than six months after completion of the primary vaccine course, and that the programme should as far as possible be deployed in the same order as phase one.
Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many deaths recorded within 28 days of positive covid-19 test occurred on each day from (a) 1 August 2020 to 13 September 2020 and (b) on the corresponding days in 2021.
Answered by Maggie Throup
The information requested is shown in the following table.
Date of Death | 2020 | 2021 |
1 August | 9 | 73 |
2 August | 8 | 65 |
3 August | 14 | 66 |
4 August | 10 | 70 |
5 August | 3 | 85 |
6 August | 9 | 79 |
7 August | 7 | 85 |
8 August | 11 | 65 |
9 August | 8 | 68 |
10 August | 11 | 68 |
11 August | 10 | 79 |
12 August | 6 | 91 |
13 August | 7 | 86 |
14 August | 6 | 79 |
15 August | 11 | 70 |
16 August | 4 | 69 |
17 August | 12 | 93 |
18 August | 7 | 78 |
19 August | 2 | 91 |
20 August | 8 | 101 |
21 August | 7 | 87 |
22 August | 6 | 102 |
23 August | 13 | 94 |
24 August | 5 | 102 |
25 August | 11 | 86 |
26 August | 11 | 102 |
27 August | 8 | 104 |
28 August | 8 | 99 |
29 August | 5 | 103 |
30 August | 6 | 88 |
31 August | 7 | 92 |
1 September | 2 | 92 |
2 September | 8 | 100 |
3 September | 6 | 118 |
4 September | 6 | 107 |
5 September | 12 | 106 |
6 September | 8 | 113 |
7 September | 13 | 107 |
8 September | 9 | 96 |
9 September | 9 | 107* |
10 September | 12 | 74* |
11 September | 10 | 55* |
12 September | 18 | 56* |
13 September | 14 | 13* |
Source: UK Coronavirus Dashboard - Number of deaths of people who had had a positive test result for COVID-19 and died within 28 days of the first positive test. Data extracted 14 September 2021. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths?areaType=nation%26areaName=England#card-deaths_within_28_days_of_positive_test_by_date_of_death
Note:
*As the above data is based on date of death, data for the most recent days are subject to reporting delay as death reports can take several days to be submitted to Public Health England following the death of a person.
Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide similar guidance to the temporary clinical authorisation granted by the Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine on 2 December 2020, to the MHRA in regards to the fast-tracking of nasal covid-19 vaccines; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
COVID-19 vaccines which can be administered nasally are currently in early clinical trials. Any route to approval of such treatments will be subject to the developer seeking regulatory approval from the United Kingdom’s independent medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to make Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy surgery fully available on the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
NHS England routinely commissions selective dorsal rhizotomy palsy, for patients who meet certain criteria, in five hospitals across England with known expertise and recent clinical experience for this procedure.
Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he has published on mixing covid-19 vaccine doses in people aged under 40; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
Mixing COVID-19 vaccines is not currently advised, unless in exceptional circumstances as there is currently limited evidence of effectiveness and the duration of protection. Guidance on when mixing COVID-19 vaccines may be appropriate has been published in the Green Book, which provides guidance for public health professionals on use of COVID-19 vaccines in the vaccine deployment programme. This advice is also reflected in the guidance on the vaccination programme for healthcare practitioners.
Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criterion his Department will use when deciding on the selection of UK Government accredited observers for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (COP9); and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The criteria for accredited observers is determined by the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timeline is for selecting the UK Government accredited observers for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (COP9); and how his Department will notify interested parties of that process.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The United Kingdom delegation for Conference of the Parties (COP9) will be comprised of officials from the Department of Health and Social Care and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, as has been the case for previous COPs. No registration details, agenda or papers for the November COP ninth session are available at present.
The process for the accreditation of other interested parties such as international inter-governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations for the COP is set out by the Secretariat of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which is available at the following link:
https://fctc.who.int/who-fctc/governance/observers
Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, what the distinguishing criteria are between the categories of (a) the Government delegation and (b) observers accredited by the UK Government ahead of the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP9).
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The United Kingdom delegation for Conference of the Parties (COP9) will be comprised of officials from the Department of Health and Social Care and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, as has been the case for previous COPs. No registration details, agenda or papers for the November COP ninth session are available at present.
The process for the accreditation of other interested parties such as international inter-governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations for the COP is set out by the Secretariat of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which is available at the following link:
https://fctc.who.int/who-fctc/governance/observers