Darren Paffey MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Healthy Start Scheme: Southampton ItchenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58541More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eligible families were in receipt of Healthy Start in Southampton Itchen constituency on 9 June 2025.
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) operates the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department. Monthly figures for the number of people on the digital Healthy Start scheme are published on the NHS Healthy Start website, which is available at ...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFree School Meals: HealthDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58539More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take with the Department for Education to monitor the potential impact of the (a) expansion of free school meal eligibility and (b) changes to School Food Standar
Answer: Free school meals offer a critical nutritional safety net to those children who require it most. Expanding the eligibility criteria to all families in receipt of universal credit will provide 500,000 more children with access to a nutritious lunchtime mea...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNeuroendocrine Cancer: RadiotherapyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51694More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to update NHS commissioning policy to include funding for Selective Internal Radiation Therapy for patients with neuroendocrine tumours with liver metastases.
Answer: The Department recognises the need to offer patients the most suitable treatment, including the use of selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT).NHS England is currently in the early stages of policy development for SIRT as an additional treatment optio...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHormone Replacement TherapyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequate availability of Premarin in the NHS; and what steps he is taking to support patients who are unable to access it.
Answer: Premarin tablets remain available. However, the supplier of Premarin has debranded this product, which means the product's brand name, Premarin, has been removed and it is now available and known under its generic name, which is conjugated oestrogens tabl...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: Care LeaversDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12907More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential feasibility of extending free prescriptions to care leavers aged 18 to 25.
Answer: There are no current plans to make an assessment of the feasibility of extending free prescriptions to care leavers aged 18 to 25 years old.
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10956More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will implement a national breast cancer screening awareness campaign to encourage people to attend appointments.
Answer: The NHS Breast Screening Programme has high levels of activity, however NHS England has advised that some women are simply not coming forward for screening. To address this, NHS England is carrying out research into the best approaches to target specific ...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordADHD: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of NHS prescribers for ADHD medication.
Answer: No specific assessment has been made. It is the responsibility of integrated care boards to make available appropriate provision to meet the health and care needs of their local population, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder services, in l...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrimodosDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9559More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will (a) review evidence on the health impacts of Primodos and (b) make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a financial redress scheme for people affected by Prim
Answer: We are hugely sympathetic to the families who believe that they have suffered because of using Hormone Pregnancy Tests (HPTs). Currently, the available scientific evidence does not support a causal association between the use HPTs during early pregnancy a...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSexual Dysfunction: Selective Serotonin Reuptake InhibitorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress the Commission for Human Medicines has made on its review of how the risk of sexual dysfunction is communicated to patients; and whether that review includes the potential effects of
Answer: The first meeting of the Expert Working Group (EWG) on antidepressant risk minimisation convened by the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, on the advice of the Commission on Human Medicines, was held on 4 July 2024.At the initial meeting ...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHealth: Southampton ItchenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of health inequalities in Southampton Itchen constituency; and what steps he plans to take to tackle those inequalities.
Answer: As part of our health mission, the Government is committed to ensuring that people live well for longer. This includes tackling the determinants that underpin stark health inequalities, to halve the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and p...
Answered 1 Aug 2024
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