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Questions for Written Answer for 27 March 2023

Tabled on 24 March 2023 and due for answer by 11 April 2023.

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth to ask His Majesty's Government what evidence they have received about the impact of the loss of the Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre following its sale.  HL6823
Answered
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the resilience of the supply chain for imports of fruit and vegetables.  HL6824
Answered
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of levels of food security in England; and, in particular, of self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables.  HL6825
Answered
Baroness Merron to ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the legal and reputational risks of NHS England’s decision to instruct hospitals to use Palantir’s Faster Data Flows database.  HL6826
Answered
Baroness Merron to ask His Majesty's Government, further to NHS England’s instruction to hospitals to use Palantir’s Faster Data Flows database, what categories of patient data Palantir will have access to.  HL6827
Answered
Baroness Merron to ask His Majesty's Government, further to NHS England’s instruction to hospitals to use Palantir’s Faster Data Flows database, whether hospitals will be required to seek patients’ consent for the sharing of their data.  HL6828
Answered
Baroness Merron to ask His Majesty's Government, further to NHS England’s instruction to hospitals to use Palantir’s Faster Data Flows database, what safeguards they will put in place to protect patient privacy.  HL6829
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Baroness Merron to ask His Majesty's Government what was the process for selecting a company to provide the NHS England data platform; and which other companies they considered bids from before awarding the service to Palantir.  HL6830
Answered
Baroness Randerson to ask His Majesty's Government what were the construction costs of each of the seven Inland Border Facilities; and for what purposes each of them have been used in the last year.  HL6831
Answered
Baroness Randerson to ask His Majesty's Government what are the causes of delays to payments to students on the Turing scheme; and what plans they have (1) to reduce the level of bureaucracy involved in applications, and (2) to mitigate the effect of these problems on poorer students.  HL6832
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Lord Truscott to ask His Majesty's Government how many people in England over the age of 18 live in leasehold properties.  HL6833
Answered
Baroness Whitaker to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that, under their new arrangements whereby prisoners will not be released on Fridays, prisoners’ sentences will be shortened to end on the Thursday rather than extended through to the following Monday.  HL6834
Answered
Baroness Whitaker to ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide accommodation for prisoners for the first week and weekend after release in instances where the prisoner has lost their home after being remanded in custody for sentence.  HL6835
Answered
Baroness Whitaker to ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to require the Probation Service to arrange accommodation for prisoners for the first week and weekend after release in instances where the prisoner has lost their home after being remanded in custody for sentence; and what steps they will take to ensure the Probation Service is sufficiently resourced to do so.… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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