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Written Answers — Health: Alcoholic Drinks/Drugs: Brighton and Hove (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: Funding is allocated by local drug partnership areas (coterminous with local authorities), not constituency. From 2010-11 funding for specialist substance misuse services for young people will be allocated using a new formula, the Child Welfare Index (CWI), to reflect more accurately the levels of need among under-18s. This mirrors a change to the formula for adult drug treatment funding in...

Written Answers — Health: Alcoholic Drinks/Drugs: Brighton and Hove (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: Young people's drug or alcohol misuse is part of a wider pattern of problematic behaviour, which is addressed by specialist services that are different from adult alcohol and drug dependency services. Very few of these young people are dependent, and interventions tend to centre on psychosocial counselling-based therapies, which address the underlying causes and the behavioural consequences...

Written Answers — Health: Burns: Health Services (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: This information is not collected centrally.

Written Answers — Health: Cannabis: Misuse (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: The information requested is provided in the following tables. Table 1: Number of finished admission episodes where the primary diagnosis was poisoning by cannabis and the first secondary, diagnosis was accidental or intentional self-poisoning by and exposure to narcotics and psychodysleptics for Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and for England, 1997-98 to...

Written Answers — Health: Contraceptives (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: Information at primary care trust level is not available for further than five years back. The current data set covers September 2004 to August 2009. Figures for this period, taken from the Prescribing Analysis and CosT tool (PACT) system, have been placed in the Library.

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Freedom of Information (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: The following table provides a breakdown of the number of requests under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act to the Department of Health since April 2009: (a) requests agreed to and answered in full; and (b) agreed to and answered in part since April 2009. A copy of the material provided in each case has been placed in the Library. FOI requests to the Department of Health for...

Written Answers — Health: Drugs: Misuse (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: This information is not collected centrally.

Written Answers — Health: Drugs: Rehabilitation (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: Waiting time figures for young people aged under-18 for England, Yorkshire and The Humber and Leeds are presented in the following table. Waiting times for first specialist substance misuse treatment interventions(1) for young people 2007-08. (1) Specialist substance misuse treatment interventions for young people include alcohol interventions. Less than 3 weeks (number ) Less than 3...

Written Answers — Health: E. Coli (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: This information is not held centrally.

Written Answers — Health: Exercise: Health Education (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: There are eight full-time staff in the Physical Activity Programme team and three full-time staff in the Cross Government Obesity team who deal with promotion of physical activity in the central Department. There are in addition other programmes within the Department, which contribute towards promotion of the physical activity through their own policy areas such as Healthy Schools, Further...

Written Answers — Health: Genetically Modified Organisms (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: Genetically modified (GM) foods may not be marketed in the European Union unless they have been rigorously assessed for safety. These assessments are carried out by the European Food Safety Authority and products are only authorised if they are found not to present a risk to the consumer. There is a strong public interest in the publication of high quality research into GM food safety and the...

Written Answers — Health: Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: This information is not available. Up until October 2009, costs incurred by the NHS for care provided to temporary visitors from other European economic area (EEA) member states were only reclaimed through bilateral arrangements. Since October 2009, the Department has had the necessary infrastructure in place to allow the UK to reclaim actual costs from other EEA member states whose citizens...

Written Answers — Health: In Vitro Fertilisation: Leeds (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: The provision of fertility treatment by primary care trusts (PCTs) is determined at a local level. The Government support the clinical guideline on the assessment and treatment for people with fertility problems produced by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and has made it clear that PCTs are expected to move towards full implementation of the guideline. The...

Written Answers — Health: Marmot Review (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: Professor Sir Michael Marmot's post 2010 strategic review of health inequalities will be published in the early part of 2010.

Written Answers — Health: Meningitis: Vaccination (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: Meningitis can be caused by a number of different infections, some of which are vaccine-preventable. The vaccine-preventable diseases that can cause meningitis and the relevant vaccines are tabled as follows: Disease Number of doses of vaccine and age given Vaccine(s) used Meningitis C (MenC) Two doses in the first year of life and one dose in the second year of life Meningitis C...

Written Answers — Health: Meningitis: Vaccination (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: Departmentally funded research on meningitis vaccine development is undertaken by the Health Protection Agency. The Agency's total expenditure on the topic in 2008-09 was £1.7 million. An expenditure figure for 2009-10 is not yet available.

Written Answers — Health: Nutrition (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: The nutrition claims annex already lists a range of nutrition claims such as 'low saturated fat', 'low salt', 'high fibre' that may be made on food products meeting the associated criteria. The European Commission has circulated draft proposals which would amend some of the existing claims and add new claims (for example 'no added salt' and 'now contains X % less salt/fat/saturated fat') to...

Written Answers — Health: Skin Piercing (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: Ear and body piercing for cosmetic purposes are lawful and there is no statutory minimum age of consent. Minors are able to give valid consent if they are capable of understanding the nature of the act to be done. There are no current plans to introduce legislation to make body piercing of minors a criminal offence, as introducing a minimum age of consent might result in children piercing...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Death (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: The Government are committed to reducing the number of smoking-related deaths. Our comprehensive tobacco control strategy introduced in 1998. In England there are around 2.4 million fewer smokers, with smoking prevalence down from 28 per cent. in 1998 to 21 per cent. in 2007. The existing six-strand tobacco strategy tackles smoking and the effects of smoke on other people our achievements...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Health Services (12 Nov 2009)

Gillian Merron: The information requested is not available centrally. The provision of free national health service stop smoking services across England for the last 10 years has resulted in over 4 million quit dates being set and 70,000 lives being saved over the 10 year period. Records of quit attempts are collected and managed at local level by the NHS Stop Smoking Service. "NHS Stop Smoking Services:...