Asked by: Gerry Sutcliffe (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made in price negotiations with the manufacturer of the meningitis B vaccine.
Answered by Jane Ellison
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 5 January 2015 to Question 219778.
Asked by: Gerry Sutcliffe (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the Meningitis B vaccine to be made available on the NHS.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The Department is continuing negotiations with the manufacturer to seek supply of the meningococcal B vaccine, Bexsero® at a cost-effective price as recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Imunisation. These negotiations will be completed as quickly as practicable.
Asked by: Gerry Sutcliffe (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of all correspondence between him, Ministers of his Department, officials of his Department and the European Commission on the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations, as notified by the UK Government to the Commission on 29 August 2014.
Answered by Jane Ellison
As the Government continues to consider carefully all issues relevant to the introduction of standardised packaging of tobacco products, the Department currently has no plans to place this information into the Library.
Asked by: Gerry Sutcliffe (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he, Ministers or officials of his Department have had with the European Commission on the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Product Regulations, as notified by the Government to the Commission on 29 August 2014.
Answered by Jane Ellison
As the Government continues to consider carefully all issues relevant to the introduction of standardised packaging of tobacco products, the Department currently has no plans to place this information into the Library.
Asked by: Gerry Sutcliffe (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any EU member state has objected to the European Commission about the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Product Regulations, as notified by the Government to the Commission on 29 August 2014; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The following Member States provided detailed opinions; Romania, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain. Ireland provided a comment.
Further information about member states respondes can be found at:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tris/en/search/?trisaction=search.detail&year=2014&num=427
Asked by: Gerry Sutcliffe (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what definition his Department uses of an adequate amount of weekly physical activity.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The UK Chief Medical Officers' (CMOs) guidelines for physical activity for adults is to be active daily, up to at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity a week. Children and young people should be active for at least 60 minutes and up to several hours every day of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity. The guidelines were published in July 2011. More information can be found from UK CMOs' report on physical activity ‘Start Active, Stay Active'. A copy of the report has already been placed in the Library.