Tag: Jim Shannon

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-10-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to promote wildlife-friendly farming practices.

George Eustice

Agri-environment schemes play a major role in the conservation of wildlife in England. More than £900 million will be available for Countryside Stewardship for 2014 to 2020.

Biodiversity is one of the main objectives of Countryside Stewardship. The Wild Pollinator and Farm Wildlife Package options within the scheme will be of particular benefit to wild pollinators, farmland birds and other species. The package will play a key role in supporting Defra’s National Pollinator Strategy.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-11-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of when Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating programmes will be available throughout the NHS.

Jane Ellison

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Quality Standard for diabetes sets out that people with diabetes should receive a structured educational programme as this is key to ensuring that they are able to manage their condition as successfully as possible.

There are a number of national and locally developed patient education programmes, including Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating which is available to people with Type 1 diabetes via general practitioner referral.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-11-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage schools to teach (a) CPR and (b) other life-saving methods.

Edward Timpson

All schools are required to teach a balanced and broadly based curriculum that prepares them for adult life. The new national curriculum focuses on the essential knowledge so that teachers can design a wider school curriculum that best meets the needs of their pupils.

Many schools already choose to include CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and defibrillator awareness as part of their PSHE (personal, social, health and economic education) teaching. The non-statutory PSHE Programme of Study produced by the PSHE Association, teaches young people how to recognise and follow health and safety procedures, ways of reducing risk and minimising harm in risky situations, and how to use emergency and basic first aid.

Many schools also make use of organisations such as the Red Cross and St John Ambulance, to provide information to young people about first aid and dealing with emergencies.The British Heart Foundation has offered to provide free CPR training kits to every secondary school in the country, allowing young people to gain first-hand experience of this important life-saving skill. We have promoted this kit to schools through the all schools termly email and social media channels and we expect many schools to take up this offer.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-11-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps NICE has taken to make the Novalung treatment available on the NHS.

George Freeman

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended in interventional procedures guidance that the use of extracorporeal membrane ventilators, like Novalung, may be considered as a treatment option for suitable patients in a number of conditions.

NICE’s interventional procedures guidance is available on NICE’s website at: www.nice.org.uk/Guidance

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-11-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce and prevent incidences of pneumococcal pneumonia.

Jane Ellison

A national pneumococcal vaccination programme is in place to protect individuals for whom pneumococcal infection is likely to be more common and/or serious. Vaccination is provided to children as part of the routine childhood immunisation programme; those aged 65 years or over; and those aged between 2 and 64 years of age who are at increased risk of invasive pneumococcal disease.

There is an increased risk of getting pneumococcal pneumonia following influenza infection. Therefore people aged 65 years and older and those under 65 years of age in clinical risk groups are offered influenza vaccination each year to lower their risk of flu and also pneumococcal disease.

There has been a significant reduction in pneumococcal pneumonia in the United Kingdom, in all ages, this has mainly been the result of the impact of the UK childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccination programme.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-11-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to reach a decision on the possible expansion of Heathrow Airport.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Government’s position on airports capacity has not changed since the Airports Commission published their final report on 1 July 2015. Government is still reviewing all of the evidence before coming to any decisions.

The Prime Minister has said a decision will be made by the end of the year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-11-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission structural education courses to prevent diabetes, in line with NICE guidance.

Jane Ellison

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Quality Standard for diabetes and guidance support the use of structured education for people diagnosed with diabetes to help them manage their condition.

The National Diabetes Prevention Programme (DPP) is a joint commitment from NHS England, Public Health England and Diabetes UK and will be the first national Type 2 diabetes prevention programme delivered at scale. People identified as being at high risk of diabetes will be referred onto intensive lifestyle management programmes which will support them to lose weight, improve their diet and be more physically active.

The DPP will link into the existing NHS Health Check programme, which invites adults between the ages of 40 and 74 for risk awareness, assessment and management of the key risk factors leading to premature death and disability in England.

Building on the DDP, the Department has committed to improving outcomes for those with, and at risk of, diabetes. We will announce our plans shortly.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-11-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) men and (b) women in each age group have been diagnosed with HIV in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

The annual numbers of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diagnoses among men by age group over the last five years is shown in Table 1. The numbers for women by age group over the same period is shown in Table 2. The majority of new diagnoses are among persons aged between 25 and 44 years.

Number of men newly diagnosed with HIV by age group: United Kingdom, 2010-2014

Age group	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Total
0-14	26	30	23	16	12	107
15-24	457	482	536	583	565	2,623
25-34	1,339	1,408	1,431	1,503	1,609	7,290
35-44	1,402	1,364	1,315	1,219	1,158	6,458
45-54	748	752	821	812	803	3,936
55-64	261	271	286	265	315	1,398
65+	84	96	106	133	149	568
TOTAL	4,317	4,403	4,518	4,531	4,611	22,380

Number of women newly diagnosed with HIV by age group: United Kingdom, 2010-2014

Age group	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Total
0-14	46	38	20	19	20	143
15-24	226	179	166	167	162	900
25-34	724	649	517	472	435	2,797
35-44	626	543	572	446	432	2,619
45-54	302	279	313	261	319	1,474
55-64	89	85	108	87	111	480
65+	23	13	40	49	61	186
TOTAL	2,036	1,786	1,736	1,501	1,540	8,599

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-11-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she is taking to ensure companies that install solar panels on homes are insured for that installation.

Andrea Leadsom

Under the Feed-in Tariff (FITs) and Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) schemes installers are required to be certified under the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS), whose requirements include companies carrying the appropriate insurance and product warranties.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-11-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to recover from Fifa the costs of England’s 2018 World Cup bid.

Tracey Crouch

It is a matter for the FA and local authorities to decide whether they havegrounds to claim backany investment they made towards the cost of bidding for the Fifa 2018 World Cup.