Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press release by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on 16 August 2021, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to ban hymenoplasty.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
In the Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, the Government committed to convening an independent expert panel on hymenoplasty to consider the clinical and ethical aspects of the procedure in more detail. We will carefully consider the panel’s recommendations, including any potential legislative action.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of deaths of UK nationals that could be prevented annually by greater use of sunscreen.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Public Health England (PHE) has made no such estimate.
PHE has contributed to research which demonstrated that sunscreen use allows protection from sunburn whilst still allowing vitamin D to be generated.
PHE also recommends using other means of protection, such as shade, appropriate clothing and sunglasses.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many diagnoses of skin cancer there have been in the UK in each year since 1990.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The number of registered skin cancer diagnoses are held from 1995 to 2018, the most recent year for which data is available. The following table shows annual registrations of malignant melanoma of skin and non-melanoma skin cancer in the United Kingdom.
Diagnosis year | Registrations of malignant melanoma of skin | Registrations of non-melanoma skin cancer |
1995 | 4,777 | 36,093 |
1996 | 4,772 | 36,678 |
1997 | 5,050 | 41,457 |
1998 | 5,170 | 46,818 |
1999 | 5,359 | 48,008 |
2000 | 6,039 | 50,637 |
2001 | 6,464 | 52,750 |
2002 | 6,718 | 54,074 |
2003 | 6,994 | 56,530 |
2004 | 7,726 | 60,643 |
2005 | 8,261 | 63,230 |
2006 | 8,972 | 67,647 |
2007 | 9,113 | 76,009 |
2008 | 10,091 | 90,827 |
2009 | 10,242 | 88,954 |
2010 | 10,908 | 96,587 |
2011 | 11,211 | 101,465 |
2012 | 11,518 | 107,619 |
2013 | 12,448 | 114,502 |
2014 | 13,122 | 121,380 |
2015 | 13,431 | 126,118 |
2016 | 13,808 | 131,252 |
2017 | 13,784 | 129,364 |
2018 | 14,824 | 129,002 |
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cancer-registration-statistics-england-2018-final-release
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the rate of pregnancy is for those under 18 years old in (a) the UK, (b) England and (c) the North East in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Department does not collect this information. However, the Office for National Statistics collects information on the conception rate in women under 18 years old in England. The information requested for England and the North East in each of the last ten years for which data is available is shown in the following table.
| England | North East | ||
Year | Number of Conceptions | Conception rate per 1,000 women in age group | Number of Conceptions | Conception rate per 1,000 women in age group |
2009 | 35,966 | 37.1 | 2,225 | 45.7 |
2010 | 32,552 | 34.2 | 2,032 | 43.5 |
2011 | 29,166 | 30.7 | 1,750 | 38.4 |
2012 | 26,157 | 27.7 | 1,600 | 35.5 |
2013 | 22,830 | 24.3 | 1,367 | 30.6 |
2014 | 21,282 | 22.8 | 1,332 | 30.2 |
2015 | 19,080 | 20.8 | 1,199 | 28.0 |
2016 | 17,024 | 18.8 | 1,023 | 24.6 |
2017 | 15,748 | 17.8 | 994 | 24.7 |
2018 | 14,736 | 16.7 | 986 | 24.9 |
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) prisoners and (b) prison officers have been vaccinated against covid-19 as at 9 February 2021.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The information is not currently held centrally in the format requested.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)
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 22 September 2020 to Question 89871 on Shotley Bridge Hospital: Domestic Visits, when the last visit was by a Minister from the Department of Health and Social Care, or its predecessor departments, to Shotley Bridge Hospital.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
We have no record of any Ministerial visits to Shotley Bridge Hospital prior to 14 September 2020.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when asymptomatic testing for covid-19 will be rolled out for domiciliary care workers in England.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Home carers working for Care Quality Commission registered organisations are able to access weekly polymerase chain reaction tests to administer at home to help identify more asymptomatic cases and protect care recipients who are more vulnerable to COVID-19.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in (a) County Durham local authority area, (b) North West Durham parliamentary constituency and (c) North East England have (i) been tested for, (ii) tested positive for and (iii) been hospitalised due to covid-19.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We do not publish data in the format requested.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what NHS facilities in the Durham county council area are under PFI contracts; and what the (a)(i) start and (ii) end date is and (b) other terms and conditions are of those contracts.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
HM Treasury and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) publish a joint dataset listing all active Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects, including those held by the National Health Service. This data includes the dates when each PFI contract was signed and began operations, the length of the contract and annual Unitary Charge payments.
NHS PFI contracts are held directly by individuals NHS trusts and foundation trusts, not the Department. The latest HM Treasury/IPA data on PFI contracts was published in May 2019 and is available on GOV.UK at the following link:
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who is responsible for the transport home of (a) residents of England treated in hospitals in Scotland and (b) residents of Scotland treated in hospital in England; and whether patients resident in England in hospital in Scotland or patients resident in Scotland in hospital in England can be charged for their transport home from hospital.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The provision of patient transport services (PTS) is the responsibility of local National Health Service commissioners and therefore to set appropriate expectations of services with their providers and agree the cost of PTS. In the case of cross-border cases, where patients’ resident in England, receive treatment in Scotland, the English clinical commissioning group would be responsible and vice versa.
Patients who are eligible for PTS are not charged.