House of Lords Business

Baroness Altmann to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the decision by regulatory authorities in the United States of America to disallow further use of the Evusheld monoclonal antibody product; and what steps they will take to ensure appropriate prophylaxis and treatment against COVID-19 for vulnerable immunodeficient and immunocompromised patients.  H… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Altmann to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of increasing the retail customer energy standing charge; and what proportion of the increase in the standing charge is due to the need to compensate the customers of failed energy firms.  HL5172

Baroness Altmann to ask His Majesty's Government what instructions they have given to Ofgem on ensuring that the costs of failed energy firms do not fall more heavily on vulnerable customers and single person households.  HL5173

Baroness Altmann to ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to reforming the way in which Ofgem manages the energy price cap.  HL5174

Baroness Altmann to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to ensure that vulnerable customers fitted with a smart meter at home (1) understand how to use the meter, (2) have necessary training on how it operates, and (3) have the smart meter sited in a place that is accessible safely, should they need to press any buttons on it.  HL5175

Baroness Altmann to ask His Majesty's Government what protections they have in place to prevent energy firms from leaving households without power in their homes; and what penalties are imposed on energy firms that do not take sufficient care of vulnerable customers or which wrongly disconnect customers.  HL5176

Lord Anderson of Ipswich to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to prepare and lay before Parliament the annual reports, required by section 3A of the Law Commissions Act 1965, on the extent to which Law Commission recommendations were implemented for the reporting years (1) 2018–19, (2) 2019–20, (3) 2020–21, (4) 2021–22, and (5) 2022–23.  HL5177

Lord Baker of Dorking to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential effects of technology such as ChatGPT on school teaching and homework.  HL5178

Lord Baker of Dorking to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential effects of technology such as ChatGPT on the assessment of students.  HL5179

Lord Baker of Dorking to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential effects of technology such as ChatGPT on the teaching and assessment of students in (1) Further Education, and (2) universities.  HL5180

Lord Baker of Dorking to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential effects of technology such as ChatGPT on examinations in England where students are permitted access to books.  HL5181

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce the sugar content of processed food, following the finding by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities that targets for sugar reduction since 2015 have not been met.  HL5182

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce waiting lists for initial appointments at (1) Sheffield Gender Identity Clinic, and (2) other gender identity clinics in England.  HL5183

Lord Berkeley to ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in reducing cycle theft, as set out in their policy paper Gear Change: A bold vision for cycling and walking, published on 27 July 2020.  HL5184

Lord Berkeley to ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) bicycles were reported as stolen, and (2) people were prosecuted for cycle theft, in each of the last five years.  HL5185

Lord Berkeley to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the (1) costs, and (2) benefits, of creating a DVLA-style database of cycles in the UK in order to deter the market for stolen bicycles.  HL5186

Lord Blencathra to ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they intend to have with other countries about establishing an international tribunal to try Russian (1) leaders, and (2) military officers, for war crimes, using the Nuremberg Tribunal as a model.  HL5187

Lord Blencathra to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish revised guidance on biologically male patients who identify as female being allocated places on wards intended solely for biologically female patients.  HL5188

Lord Blencathra to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that female patients that object to being handled by a biologically male nurse who identifies as female are not discriminated against or recorded by the healthcare organisation as being “transphobic”.  HL5189

Lord Blencathra to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that police forces record the gender of a suspected perpetrator of a sexual assault as “male” if they possess male genitalia, regardless of their preferred gender identity.  HL5190

Lord Blencathra to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that the courts service record the gender of a person convicted of a sexual assault as “male” if they possess male genitalia, regardless of their preferred gender identity.  HL5191

Lord Blencathra to ask the Leader of the House,  further to the request made to the Leader by Lord Blencathra on 12 January (HL Deb col 1535), whether he will (1) send a printed copy of the Cabinet Office Guide to Making Legislation to every civil servant in the Office of Parliamentary Counsel with an instruction to read it, and (2) amend section E of the Guide which begins with t… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Blunkett to ask His Majesty's Government what the average length of time taken to process claims under the Access to Work Scheme was from 1 January to 31 December 2022.  HL5193

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Callanan on 30 January (HL4760), what assessment they have made of the case for restricting the imposition of prepayment meters on energy consumers.  HL5194

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of energy customers with prepayment meters who have been unable to pay their energy bills in the last three calendar years.  HL5195

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth to ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the governments of other European countries regarding the comparative cost of energy to consumers in the UK and those countries; and what lessons they have learned from those discussions.  HL5196

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address labour shortages in the (1) road haulage, (2) tourism, and (3) hospitality, sectors in the (a) short term, and (b) long term.  HL5197

Lord Bradley to ask His Majesty's Government how many people serving a life sentence have absconded from an open prison and have then been convicted of (1) a serious further offence, or (2) any further offence, while unlawfully at large in each of the last 10 years.  HL5198

Lord Bradley to ask His Majesty's Government how many people serving a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) have absconded from an open prison and have been convicted of (1) a serious further offence, or (2) any further offence, while unlawfully at large in each of the last 10 years.  HL5199

Lord De Mauley to ask His Majesty's Government, following the decision to send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, how many weeks have been allocated to training prospective Ukrainian commanders of those tanks.  HL5200

Lord Empey to ask His Majesty's Government how many claims have been made under the Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme since it was launched in 2021.  HL5201

Lord Empey to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of giving (1) children under five years old, and (2) adults under 50 years old, access to COVID-19 vaccines.  HL5202

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) ONS data showing an increase in the relative affordability of alcohol compared to fruit juice, and (2) the implications of this trend for their planned duty freeze on alcoholic drinks.  HL5203

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that alcohol harm rates do not increase following the increase in relative affordability of alcohol compared to fruit juice and other non-alcoholic drinks, given the link between alcohol affordability and harm.  HL5204

Lord Hayward to ask the Senior Deputy Speaker how many road traffic accidents occurred on the Parliamentary Estate in each of the last five calendar years resulting in an injury to a person; and for each accident (1) what was the severity of the incident, and (2) on what date it occurred.  HL5205

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what cost assessment they have undertaken of the daily dose rationing of liothyronine regardless of clinical need by the (1) NHS Devon, (2) NHS Buckinghamshire, and (3) NHS Hertfordshire, Integrated Care Boards; and what comparative assessment they have made of (a) the NHS England national guidance, and (b) the National Inst… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the NHS costs incurred by sending thyroid patients to secondary care for liothyronine, given NHS England national guidance only requires initiation of treatment in secondary care but allows regular prescribing in primary care.  HL5207

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government whether they will publish (1) the assessment of the NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative of technologies from the company Healthy.io, (2) any contracts or agreements between Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group and that company, and (3) an estimate of how many Oxfordshire patients had data about them provided to that com… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board’s (ICB) policy on liothyronine to assess the extent to which it (1) follows national guidance, by asking new patients who have already been reviewed by specialist NHS consultants to be reviewed again if they move into Gloucestershire from another ICB area,… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government why the Independent Group Advising on the Release of Data only received draft guidance on NHS England’s protection of patient data on 18 January for comment by 20 January.  HL5210

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government whether they will raise with NHS England the concerns of the Independent Group Advising on the Release of Data regarding the amount of time they had to comment on the draft guidance on NHS England’s protection of patient data.  HL5211

Lord Hylton to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking (1) to address, and (2) to prevent, cases in the UK of (a) forced labour, (b) people trafficking, and (c) exploitation of domestic workers from overseas countries.  HL5212

Lord Jackson of Peterborough to ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation; and if so, when.  HL5213

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb to ask His Majesty's Government when they will report on the outcome of the Government Oversight Group review of the stewardship regime for professional use of Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides in the UK after five years of operation; and what steps they are taking to end the use of previously banned substances still being deployed in the c… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the report by the Animal and Plant Health Agency Year End Descriptive Epidemiology Report: Bovine TV in the Edge Area of England 2021, County: Hampshire, published on 7 October 2022 and updated on 28 November 2022, and (2) the implications for their policy on the timing of… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Baroness Lister of Burtersett to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the charity Become Home for Christmas, published on 2 January; and in particular, the finding that, on average, 150 children in the care system in England were moved each day in 2021–22.  HL5216

Baroness Lister of Burtersett to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of multiple placement moves on the well-being and mental health of children in the care system in England.  HL5217

Lord Mendelsohn to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that future new treatments for COVID-19 for clinically vulnerable people are (1) evaluated, and (2) delivered, along the same timeline as vaccines; and which body will be responsible for that process once Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approval is granted.  HL5218

Lord Mendelsohn to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minster of State for the Department of Health and Social Care on 27 January (127906), what steps they will take to explore a Covid antibody testing study; and why Evusheld still has not been delivered, given the recommendation by the Chief Medical Officer on 24 August 2022 to "consider the option… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text

Lord Mendelsohn to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for the Department of Health and Social Care on 27 January (127906), what the scope of the Covid antibody study will be; which body will be tasked to deliver the study; and what the study timeline will be.  HL5220

Lord Mendelsohn to ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Kamall on 12 April 2022 (HL7711), what the findings of the OCTAVE-DUO work were on providing evidence of immune response following subsequent vaccine doses for the immunocompromised.  HL5221

Lord Pendry to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the damaging effect, in particular on sugar beet crops, of pesticides used to prevent attacks from aphids.  HL5222

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that less survivable cancers, such as gastric cancer, are adequately represented in their proposed major conditions strategy.  HL5223

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking in response to the Pathology: GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report, published by the NHS in September 2021; and in particular, the finding that 97 per cent of histopathology departments do not have staff to meet clinical demand.  HL5224

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty's Government whether they have plans (1) to expand the National Genomic Test Directory to include non-genomic molecular biomarker tests, or (2) to create a universal test directory to cover genomic and molecular biomarker tests, to improve targeted cancer treatments.  HL5225

The Lord Bishop of St Albans to ask His Majesty's Government what is the value of UK direct imports and exports to Ethiopia.  HL5226

The Lord Bishop of St Albans to ask His Majesty's Government what is the value of UK direct imports and exports to Sudan.  HL5227

The Lord Bishop of St Albans to ask His Majesty's Government what is the value of UK direct imports and exports to Eritrea.  HL5228

Lord Swire to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish the names of all those in the UK who were listed as agents or informers of the former German Democratic Republic Ministry of State Security (Stasi).  HL5229

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support households facing hardship and debt as a result of the increased cost of living.  HL5230

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to support local authorities to de-risk net zero projects.  HL5231

Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support farms to be at the cutting edge of innovation and technology.  HL5232

Lord Warner to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the mechanisms for pricing schemes for innovative medicines in the UK, and those in comparative countries such as (1) Germany, (2) Spain, and (3) Ireland.  HL5233

Lord Warner to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the link between the use of innovative medicines by the NHS and (1) the placement of clinical trials in the UK, (2) patient outcomes, and (3) employment levels in the life sciences industry in the UK.  HL5234

Lord Warner to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the sustainability of a market cap model as used in the Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access.  HL5235

Lord Warner to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the real terms decline in medicines spend since 2019 on (1) patient outcomes, and (2) foreign direct investment into UK research and development.  HL5236

Lord Warner to ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to increasing medicine spending in line with the overall increase in NHS funding.  HL5237

Viscount Waverley to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to counter future shocks to the UK’s financial system.  HL5238

Lord West of Spithead to ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to banning super trawlers such as the FV Margiris from fishing in UK waters.  HL5239