Asked by: Gordon Banks (Labour - Ochil and South Perthshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to make the Fleet Driver Trainer register mandatory for paid vocational driver training.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) consulted recently on proposals to modernise and, as far as possible, reduce any potential burden that the current regulatory framework could place on approved driving instructors (ADI); it will publish the response to consultation shortly.
The consultation's proposals were designed to reduce the regulatory burden on small businesses, therefore, the consultation document proposed that DVSA would not mandate the voluntary fleet driver trainer register.
The pass rate for the B+E practical test is 67%, one of the highest pass rates for any category of test; unlike learner drivers people seeking B+E instruction must already hold a full category B driving licence. Most BE instruction is already carried out by vocational trainers who are competent to provide this service given their expertise in delivering training in category C vehicles and CE. Therefore, DVSA current has no plans to extend the regulation of paid driving instruction in a motor car to BE training; neither does it have plans to extend the regulatory framework for ADIs to cover paid vocational driver training.
Asked by: Gordon Banks (Labour - Ochil and South Perthshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will establish a national register of people with coeliac disease in England.
Answered by Norman Lamb
Annual incidence data concerning the number of peoplediagnosed with coeliac disease in England is not collected and there are no plans to establish a national register for people in England with this condition. However, the clinical guideline Coeliac disease: Recognition and assessment of coeliac disease, published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellencein 2009,estimates that coeliac disease may be present in up to 1 in 100 of the population.
No estimate has been made of the potential long-term costs to the National Health Service in England of un-managed coeliac disease and other nutritional disorders.
Asked by: Gordon Banks (Labour - Ochil and South Perthshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people of each gender, age bracket and household income bracket had diagnosed coeliac disease in England in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answered by Norman Lamb
Annual incidence data concerning the number of peoplediagnosed with coeliac disease in England is not collected and there are no plans to establish a national register for people in England with this condition. However, the clinical guideline Coeliac disease: Recognition and assessment of coeliac disease, published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellencein 2009,estimates that coeliac disease may be present in up to 1 in 100 of the population.
No estimate has been made of the potential long-term costs to the National Health Service in England of un-managed coeliac disease and other nutritional disorders.
Asked by: Gordon Banks (Labour - Ochil and South Perthshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the potential long-term costs to the NHS in England of un-managed (a) coeliac disease and (b) other nutritional disorders.
Answered by Norman Lamb
Annual incidence data concerning the number of peoplediagnosed with coeliac disease in England is not collected and there are no plans to establish a national register for people in England with this condition. However, the clinical guideline Coeliac disease: Recognition and assessment of coeliac disease, published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellencein 2009,estimates that coeliac disease may be present in up to 1 in 100 of the population.
No estimate has been made of the potential long-term costs to the National Health Service in England of un-managed coeliac disease and other nutritional disorders.
Asked by: Gordon Banks (Labour - Ochil and South Perthshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the potential cost savings to the NHS of pharmacy-led gluten-free prescribing schemes; and if his Department will issue guidance on such schemes.
Answered by Norman Lamb
We have made no recent estimate.
However, we are aware that some local assessments of these schemes have been undertaken and details of these are available at:
www.coeliac.org.uk/healthcare-professionals/resources/community-pharmacy-supply-of-gluten-free-foods/
NHS England can commission a gluten-free food supply service as a local enhanced pharmaceutical service in the light of local need. Neither we nor NHS England have plans to issue guidance on these schemes.
Asked by: Gordon Banks (Labour - Ochil and South Perthshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to encourage the roll out of pharmacy-led gluten-free prescribing schemes in England.
Answered by Norman Lamb
We have made no recent estimate.
However, we are aware that some local assessments of these schemes have been undertaken and details of these are available at:
www.coeliac.org.uk/healthcare-professionals/resources/community-pharmacy-supply-of-gluten-free-foods/
NHS England can commission a gluten-free food supply service as a local enhanced pharmaceutical service in the light of local need. Neither we nor NHS England have plans to issue guidance on these schemes.
Asked by: Gordon Banks (Labour - Ochil and South Perthshire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of personal independence payment claimants in Ochil and South Perthshire constituency who waited for more than six months for a home medical assessment.
Answered by Mike Penning
It is not possible to provide the data for personal independence payment home assessments in the Ochil and South Perthshire constituency.