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Science and Technology Committee
Subjects
Facilities; Research; X-rays; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; Science and Technology Facilities Council; Prospect
Date
11 July 2011
Reference
HC 1364-i 2010-12
House
House of Commons
Type
Select Committee written evidence;
Parliamentary committees
Committee
Science and Technology Committee
Subjects
Facilities; Research; X-rays
Date
4 July 2011
House
House of Commons
Type
Select Committee written evidence;
Parliamentary committees
Committee
Science and Technology Committee
Subjects
Facilities; Research; X-rays
Date
29 June 2011
House
House of Commons
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the evidence from independent tests of the safety of X-ray airport passenger scanners.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the evidence from independent tests of the safety of X-ray airport passenger scanners.
Asked by
Lord Krebs
(Crossbench)
Answered by
Earl Attlee
(Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
7 June 2011
The risks from the scanners have been assessed by many independent international bodies, including the UK Health Protection Agency. Tests have concluded that the dose received from being scanned is far below the allowed levels in the UK. In fact it is less than that received from natural sources in under two minutes at airline cruising altitude.
Subjects
Aviation; Airports; Health hazards; Passengers; Security; X-rays
Date
7 June 2011
Reference
9230; 728 c85WA
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Attlee on 2 November (WA 376), whether passengers suffering from medical conditions, such as cancer patients or those with BRAC-1 or BRAC-2 gene mutation, who have been instructed by their physicians not to undergo ionising radiation such as...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Attlee on 2 November (WA 376), whether passengers suffering from medical conditions, such as cancer patients or those with BRAC-1 or BRAC-2 gene mutation, who have been instructed by their physicians not to undergo ionising radiation such as...
Asked by
Lord Ashcroft
(Conservative)
Answered by
Earl Attlee
(Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
7 December 2010
Further to the Written Answer by Earl Attlee on 2 November (WA 376), whether passengers suffering from medical conditions, such as cancer patients or those with BRAC-1 or BRAC-2 gene mutation, who have been instructed by their physicians not to undergo ionising radiation such as that produced by the Rapiscan x-ray machine, will be offered an alternative method of screening at United Kingdom airports.
Subjects
Aviation; Health hazards; Passengers; Security; X-rays
Date
7 December 2010
Reference
4659; 723 c21WA
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what alternatives to the Rapiscan X-ray machine will be offered to airline passengers who are at medical risk from radiation.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what alternatives to the Rapiscan X-ray machine will be offered to airline passengers who are at medical risk from radiation.
Asked by
Lord Ashcroft
(Conservative)
Answered by
Earl Attlee
(Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
2 November 2010
The Health Protection Agency has undertaken an assessment of the risks from the Rapiscan Secure 1000 X-ray backscatter security scanner. It concluded that the scanner does not give rise to any unacceptable risks to health.
During the consultation, points were raised on whether passengers should be allowed to choose an alternative screening method. These are being considered and will be addressed in the Government's response to the consultation, which is expected to be announced shortly.
Subjects
Aviation; Health hazards; Passengers; Security; X-rays
Date
2 November 2010
Reference
3060; 721 c376WA
House
House of Lords
Deposited by
Whips Office (Lords); Department of Health
Type
Deposited papers
Author
Whips Office (Lords); Department of Health
Committed on
26 October 2009
Originated on
3 November 2009
Received on
4 November 2009
Subjects
Crossrail; Health services; Disease control; Homelessness; London Underground; Preventive medicine; Standards; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
26 October 2009
Reference
DEP2009-2726
House
House of Lords
Deposited by
Whips Office (Lords); Department of Health
Type
Deposited papers
Author
Whips Office (Lords); Department of Health
Committed on
26 October 2009
Originated on
3 November 2009
Received on
4 November 2009
Subjects
Health services; Greater London; Disease control; Preventive medicine; Standards; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
26 October 2009
Reference
DEP2009-2723
House
House of Lords
My Lords, my department accepts the recommendations of the Health Protection Agency evaluation, which clearly showed the benefits of the mobile X-ray unit. We will continue to fund the mobile unit through the find and treat programme, which actively screens homeless hostels across London until 2010. It will then be up to the London commissioners to reach a consensus on future support for find and treat, including whether there should be a second mobile x-ray unit.
My Lords, my department accepts the recommendations of the Health Protection Agency evaluation, which clearly showed the benefits of the mobile X-ray unit. We will continue to fund the mobile unit through the find and treat programme, which actively screens homeless hostels across London until 2010. It will then be up to the London commissioners to reach a consensus on future support for find and treat, including whether there should be a second mobile x-ray unit.
Answered by
Baroness Thornton
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Masham of Ilton
(Crossbench)
Type
Oral answers to questions
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they accept the recommendation of the Health Protection Agency that there should be at least two mobile X-ray units for tuberculosis screening in London; and, if so, when the second unit will become operational.
Subjects
Greater London; Screening; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
30 June 2009
Reference
712 c109-10
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I am absolutely in agreement with the noble Baroness, as are the Government. What is required here is that the London PCTs agree to take this programme forward. The cost of one mobile unit per PCT in London would be £16,000 per year, and the cost of two would be £32,000 per year. We are not talking about enormous sums, but it will require co-operation among the London PCTs. We are doing our very best to encourage this.
I know that the noble Baroness has a particular interest in TB in prisons, and I am very pleased to report that we are funding the installation of screening systems in eight of the high turnover prisons, with a link into their local acute trusts. Those are Belmarsh, Brixton, Pentonville, Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs, with three other prisons outside London being chosen for those facilities later this year.
My Lords, I am absolutely in agreement with the noble Baroness, as are the Government. What is required here is that the London PCTs agree to take this programme forward. The cost of one mobile unit per PCT in London would be £16,000 per year, and the cost of two would be £32,000 per year. We are not talking about enormous sums, but it will require co-operation among the London PCTs. We are doing our very best to encourage this.
I know that the noble Baroness has a particular interest in TB in prisons, and I am very pleased to report that we are funding the installation of screening systems in eight of the high turnover prisons, with a link into their local acute trusts. Those are Belmarsh, Brixton, Pentonville, Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs, with three other prisons outside London being chosen for those facilities later this year.
Answered by
Baroness Thornton
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Masham of Ilton
(Crossbench)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, I thank the Minister for that Answer, which was not quite what I had hoped. Is she aware that there is now an exceedingly serious situation in London with drug-resistant tuberculosis among the homeless and within the prisons, which is where the mobile unit goes? The recommendation was that there should be at least two units, but the Health Protection Agency has actually recommended that there should be three. The only unit that there is at present is now getting very old, so they desperately need another one. That would enable them also to do schools and children.
Subjects
Greater London; Screening; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
30 June 2009
Reference
712 c110
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I am not absolutely clear who is meant to make the capital payment for these things and who is meant to run them. Is it the same person, and which budget does it come from?
My Lords, I am not absolutely clear who is meant to make the capital payment for these things and who is meant to run them. Is it the same person, and which budget does it come from?
Asked by
Lord Walpole
(Crossbench)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
30 June 2009
My Lords, because of the concern about the prevalence of TB in London, the Government have centrally funded what is called the find and treat programme, including a mobile X-ray unit, until 2010. After that, the London PCTs will combine to take on the programme, if the evaluation proves to be right, and the mobile units. We now know through the HPA of the recommendation to have two units. We are urging the London PCTs to undertake to pick up the funding in 2010 and to run that programme.
Subjects
Greater London; Screening; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
30 June 2009
Reference
712 c110
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I thank the Minister for that Answer, which was not quite what I had hoped. Is she aware that there is now an exceedingly serious situation in London with drug-resistant tuberculosis among the homeless and within the prisons, which is where the mobile unit goes? The recommendation was that there should be at least two units, but the Health Protection Agency has actually recommended that there should be three. The only unit that there is at present is now getting very old, so they desperately need another one. That would enable them also to do schools and children.
My Lords, I thank the Minister for that Answer, which was not quite what I had hoped. Is she aware that there is now an exceedingly serious situation in London with drug-resistant tuberculosis among the homeless and within the prisons, which is where the mobile unit goes? The recommendation was that there should be at least two units, but the Health Protection Agency has actually recommended that there should be three. The only unit that there is at present is now getting very old, so they desperately need another one. That would enable them also to do schools and children.
Asked by
Baroness Masham of Ilton
(Crossbench)
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
30 June 2009
My Lords, I am absolutely in agreement with the noble Baroness, as are the Government. What is required here is that the London PCTs agree to take this programme forward. The cost of one mobile unit per PCT in London would be £16,000 per year, and the cost of two would be £32,000 per year. We are not talking about enormous sums, but it will require co-operation among the London PCTs. We are doing our very best to encourage this.
I know that the noble Baroness has a particular interest in TB in prisons, and I am very pleased to report that we are funding the installation of screening systems in eight of the high turnover prisons, with a link into their local acute trusts. Those are Belmarsh, Brixton, Pentonville, Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs, with three other prisons outside London being chosen for those facilities later this year.
Subjects
Greater London; Prisons; Screening; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
30 June 2009
Reference
712 c110
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, one reason that the programme of find and treat in London is so successful is that we work with those organisations. Co-ordination between all the organisations in London that work with homeless people and drug abusers is vital.
My Lords, one reason that the programme of find and treat in London is so successful is that we work with those organisations. Co-ordination between all the organisations in London that work with homeless people and drug abusers is vital.
Answered by
Baroness Thornton
(Labour)
Asked by
Lord Roberts of Llandudno
(Liberal Democrat)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, what links do the Government have with organisations such as St Mungo’s or the Barka community, which go out to rough sleepers, homeless people and, increasingly, failed asylum seekers?
Subjects
Greater London; Screening; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
30 June 2009
Reference
712 c111
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, in 2004, the Chief Medical Officer produced a TB action plan with 10 actions to bring TB under control. We are committed to tackling TB. The action plan involves reducing the number of people at risk of being newly infected by TB, providing high-quality treatment and care for them, and maintaining low levels of drug resistance, which has already been referred to, for multi-drug TB. We do this in several ways, including raising awareness of TB within the medical profession. The incidence of TB in the population has been stable for the past two years. The Care Quality Commission’s assessments of how these issues are delivered will include TB within the broad framework of how organisations are delivering at local level.
My Lords, in 2004, the Chief Medical Officer produced a TB action plan with 10 actions to bring TB under control. We are committed to tackling TB. The action plan involves reducing the number of people at risk of being newly infected by TB, providing high-quality treatment and care for them, and maintaining low levels of drug resistance, which has already been referred to, for multi-drug TB. We do this in several ways, including raising awareness of TB within the medical profession. The incidence of TB in the population has been stable for the past two years. The Care Quality Commission’s assessments of how these issues are delivered will include TB within the broad framework of how organisations are delivering at local level.
Answered by
Baroness Thornton
(Labour)
Asked by
Lord Desai
(Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, I recall that the Chief Medical Officer announced a TB strategy five years ago. What has been the effect of that plan?
Subjects
Greater London; Screening; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
30 June 2009
Reference
712 c111
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, because of the concern about the prevalence of TB in London, the Government have centrally funded what is called the find and treat programme, including a mobile X-ray unit, until 2010. After that, the London PCTs will combine to take on the programme, if the evaluation proves to be right, and the mobile units. We now know through the HPA of the recommendation to have two units. We are urging the London PCTs to undertake to pick up the funding in 2010 and to run that programme.
My Lords, because of the concern about the prevalence of TB in London, the Government have centrally funded what is called the find and treat programme, including a mobile X-ray unit, until 2010. After that, the London PCTs will combine to take on the programme, if the evaluation proves to be right, and the mobile units. We now know through the HPA of the recommendation to have two units. We are urging the London PCTs to undertake to pick up the funding in 2010 and to run that programme.
Answered by
Baroness Thornton
(Labour)
Asked by
Lord Walpole
(Crossbench)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, I am not absolutely clear who is meant to make the capital payment for these things and who is meant to run them. Is it the same person, and which budget does it come from?
Subjects
Greater London; Screening; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
30 June 2009
Reference
712 c110
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, arriving passengers who claim asylum at the port of entry are referred for medical examination and, indeed, assessment for TB. If it is found that they have TB, they will receive treatment. Failed asylum seekers will also receive treatment. This is a health protection issue, apart from anything else. Our aim is to locate the people who are most vulnerable, assess whether they have contracted TB and then provide treatment.
My Lords, arriving passengers who claim asylum at the port of entry are referred for medical examination and, indeed, assessment for TB. If it is found that they have TB, they will receive treatment. Failed asylum seekers will also receive treatment. This is a health protection issue, apart from anything else. Our aim is to locate the people who are most vulnerable, assess whether they have contracted TB and then provide treatment.
Answered by
Baroness Thornton
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Tonge
(Liberal Democrat)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, when the find and treat programme was set up, it was a service for socially excluded groups. Does that include failed asylum seekers, who still do not qualify for NHS treatment? They may not have TB when they become failed asylum seekers but can contract it while awaiting deportation, especially if they have underlying conditions such as diabetes and AIDS, for which they cannot at the moment get treatment under the National Health Service.
Subjects
Greater London; Screening; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
30 June 2009
Reference
712 c110-1
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, the programme in New York was successful and DOT was used. The success of that programme has informed how we treat the most vulnerable groups of the homeless, in particular, once we have identified them. About half of them now receive their treatment through the directly observed treatment method so that they are being supported.
My Lords, the programme in New York was successful and DOT was used. The success of that programme has informed how we treat the most vulnerable groups of the homeless, in particular, once we have identified them. About half of them now receive their treatment through the directly observed treatment method so that they are being supported.
Answered by
Baroness Thornton
(Labour)
Asked by
Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior
(Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, when the House of Lords Select Committee on fighting infection visited New York, we were most impressed when we visited the Harlem Hospital to discover its programme of tuberculosis detection and control. It has a very good TB-screening programme as well as a programme of directly observed therapy, or DOT. Is DOT also applied to the down-and-out population of London?
Subjects
Greater London; Screening; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
30 June 2009
Reference
712 c111
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they accept the recommendation of the Health Protection Agency that there should be at least two mobile X-ray units for tuberculosis screening in London; and, if so, when the second unit will become operational.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they accept the recommendation of the Health Protection Agency that there should be at least two mobile X-ray units for tuberculosis screening in London; and, if so, when the second unit will become operational.
Asked by
Baroness Masham of Ilton
(Crossbench)
Answered by
Baroness Thornton
(Labour)
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
For answer on
30 June 2009
Answered on
30 June 2009
My Lords, my department accepts the recommendations of the Health Protection Agency evaluation, which clearly showed the benefits of the mobile X-ray unit. We will continue to fund the mobile unit through the find and treat programme, which actively screens homeless hostels across London until 2010. It will then be up to the London commissioners to reach a consensus on future support for find and treat, including whether there should be a second mobile x-ray unit.
Subjects
Greater London; Screening; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
30 June 2009
Reference
712 c109-10
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, what links do the Government have with organisations such as St Mungo’s or the Barka community, which go out to rough sleepers, homeless people and, increasingly, failed asylum seekers?
My Lords, what links do the Government have with organisations such as St Mungo’s or the Barka community, which go out to rough sleepers, homeless people and, increasingly, failed asylum seekers?
Asked by
Lord Roberts of Llandudno
(Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
30 June 2009
My Lords, one reason that the programme of find and treat in London is so successful is that we work with those organisations. Co-ordination between all the organisations in London that work with homeless people and drug abusers is vital.
Subjects
Greater London; Screening; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
30 June 2009
Reference
712 c111
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, when the find and treat programme was set up, it was a service for socially excluded groups. Does that include failed asylum seekers, who still do not qualify for NHS treatment? They may not have TB when they become failed asylum seekers but can contract it while awaiting deportation, especially if they have underlying conditions such as diabetes and AIDS, for which they cannot at the moment get treatment under the National Health Service.
My Lords, when the find and treat programme was set up, it was a service for socially excluded groups. Does that include failed asylum seekers, who still do not qualify for NHS treatment? They may not have TB when they become failed asylum seekers but can contract it while awaiting deportation, especially if they have underlying conditions such as diabetes and AIDS, for which they cannot at the moment get treatment under the National Health Service.
Asked by
Baroness Tonge
(Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
30 June 2009
My Lords, arriving passengers who claim asylum at the port of entry are referred for medical examination and, indeed, assessment for TB. If it is found that they have TB, they will receive treatment. Failed asylum seekers will also receive treatment. This is a health protection issue, apart from anything else. Our aim is to locate the people who are most vulnerable, assess whether they have contracted TB and then provide treatment.
Subjects
Greater London; Screening; X-rays; Tuberculosis
Date
30 June 2009
Reference
712 c110-1
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords