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Jim Dobbin – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Dobbin on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 19 January 2012, Official Report, columns 932-3W, how many companies hold licences for the manufacture or distribution of (a) Nitrazepam, (b) Flurazepam, (c) Loprazolam, (d) Lormetazepam, (e) Temazepam, (f) Clonazepam, (g) Medazepam, (h) Midazolam, (i) Zopiclone, (j) Zaleplon, (k) Zolpiden, (l) Eszopiclone, (m) SSRI antidepressants and (n) trycyclic antidepressants; and how many of those licences were issued in the last three years.

Norman Lamb

There are currently 15 products authorised in the United Kingdom containing nitrazepam and 15 different companies authorised to manufacture and distribute them.

There are currently two products authorised in the UK containing flurazepam and one company authorised to manufacture and distribute them.

There are currently two products authorised in the UK containing loprazolam and two different companies authorised to manufacture and distribute them.

There are currently eight products authorised in the UK containing lormetazepam and four different companies authorised to manufacture and distribute them.

There are currently 10 products authorised in the UK containing temazepam and six different companies authorised to manufacture and distribute them.

There are currently six products authorised in the UK containing clonazepam and three different companies authorised to manufacture and distribute them.

There are currently no authorised products in the UK containing medazepam.

There are currently 22 products authorised in the UK containing midazolam and 10 different companies authorised to manufacture and distribute them.

There are currently 17 products authorised in the UK containing zopiclone and nine different companies authorised to manufacture and distribute them.

There are currently two products authorised in the UK containing zaleplon and one company authorised to manufacture and distribute them.

There are currently 21 products authorised in the UK containing zolpidem and 12 different companies authorised to manufacture and distribute them.

There are currently no authorised products in the UK containing eszopiclone.

There are currently 238 products authorised in the UK containing SSRI antidepressants and 57 different companies authorised to manufacture and distribute them.

There are currently 16 products authorised in the UK containing tricyclic antidepressants and 11 different companies authorised to manufacture and distribute them.

One loprazolam, four lormetazepam, two clonazepam, two midazolam, three zopiclone, four zolpidem and 75 SSRI products have been authorised in the last three years.

01/11/2022
Jamie Reed – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jamie Reed on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of patients who were able to see their preferred GP in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Dr Daniel Poulter

Data from the most recent GP Patient Survey found that 55% of patients have a particular general practitioner (GP) that they usually prefer to speak to or see. Of those, 61.7% of respondents said they could see or speak to their preferred GP ‘always or almost always’ or a ‘lot of the time’.

01/11/2022
Jim Shannon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to reduce funding for hearing aids in 2014-15.

Norman Lamb

The level of provision of hearing aids is a matter for local commissioners and is based on the needs of the local population.

01/11/2022
Jim Shannon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to extend pilot treatments for motor neurone disease; and what discussions he has had with his counterparts in the devolved adminstrations on those pilots.

Norman Lamb

The Department is not managing any pilot treatments for motor neurone disease (MND) and no recent discussions have taken place between the Department’s Ministers and the devolved administrations about pilots for MND.

01/11/2022
Jim Shannon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with NHS trusts on the prescription of medicines for psoriasis.

Norman Lamb

We have had no such discussions.

Information on the prescription of medicines for psoriasis is available from a range of sources including the British National Formulary, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and NHS Choices.

01/11/2022

Jim Shannon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on hearing aids in each of the last five years.

Norman Lamb

Information on National Health Service expenditure on hearing aids is not collected centrally. However, reference costs, which are the unit costs to NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients, provide some information which is shown in the following table.

Estimated cost to NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts of hearing aid provision, 2008-09 to 2012-13, £ million

Year	Hearing aid costs	Associated hearing aid costs	Cochlear implants and bone anchored hearing aids
2008-09	60.7	89.0	18.7
2009-10	57.7	96.0	17.7
2010-11	55.8	103.2	19.2
2011-12	62.1	118.5	26.6
2012-13	62.7	127.6	25.8

Source: Reference Costs, Department of Health

Notes:

1. Hearing aid costs are the actual costs of the hearing aids excluding other associated costs.

2. Associated hearing aid costs include assessment, fitting, follow-up and aftercare.

3. Reference costs are submitted on a fully absorbed basis, which means that all the costs of running the organisation are included in the return except where their exclusion is permitted.

4. Some relevant costs may be excluded. For example, maintenance and reprogramming costs for cochlear implants and bone anchored hearing aid costs were excluded from reference costs for these years.

5. The supply and fitting of hearing aids is also commissioned from the independent sector, and this expenditure is not reflected in the table.

6. 2012-13 is the latest year for which reference costs data are available.

01/11/2022

Iain McKenzie – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Iain McKenzie on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to reimburse people who have had to pay to upgrade to the premium one-day service to secure a (a) new or (b) renewed passport; and if she will make a statement.

James Brokenshire

There are no plans to reimburse customers who choose to use the four hour
premium service.

On 12 June, the Home Secretary announced in the House of Commons that where
people have an urgent need to travel, and their application has been with Her
Majesty’s Passport Office for longer than the standard processing time of three weeks
through no fault of their own, they will be able to upgrade their application
without charge. After their application has been through the proper checks, the
processing, printing and delivery of the new passport will be fast-tracked for
free. To qualify, customers must be booked to travel within the next 7 days.
Customers will be asked to provide details – such as flight numbers and the
name of the travel company – to confirm their travel plans.

This policy came into effect immediately after being announced and will be
available until further notice. This policy will not be applied
retrospectively.

01/11/2022

David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the volume of overseas applications for passports has been in each month since her Department assumed responsibility for such applications.

James Brokenshire

The table below shows the number of overseas passport applications received by Her Majesty’s Passport Office each month since it assumed responsibility for such applications.

Month	Number of overseas applications received*
December 2012	145
January 2013	1014
February 2013	2401
March 2013	2767
April 2013	3543
May 2013	4662
June 2013	5862
July 2013	7053
August 2013	7216
September 2013	11035
October 2013	13832
November 2013	10881
December 2013	12324
January 2014	26897
February 2014	43327
March 2014	40935

*Note: HMPO took responsibility for overseas passports applications in April 2011, commenced the repatriation of the printing of overseas passports in summer 2011, but only commenced repatriating application processing in December 2012 with that repatriation completed in February 2014.

01/11/2022

Gloria De Piero – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gloria De Piero on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications from residents of Ashfield constituency received more than three weeks ago HM Passport Office are processing.

James Brokenshire

Her Majesty’s Passport Office does not hold the information in the form requested. The
cost of providing it from individual applicant data held would be
disproportionate.

01/11/2022
Gloria De Piero – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gloria De Piero on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications from residents of Ashfield constituency received in the last three months were not processed by HM Passport Office in three weeks.

James Brokenshire

Her Majesty’s Passport Office does not hold the information in the form requested. The
cost of providing it from individual applicant data held would be
disproportionate.

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