🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Berger, for bringing up this issue and for making noble Lords aware of it. With evidence that people with mental health issues are increasingly turning to AI chatbots rather than to health providers, and rather than simply relying on the stick of the Online Safety Act, can the Minister explain what conversations her department, perhaps in conjunction...
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My Lords, a number of elite athletes follow a plant-based diet, and some of the wealthier ones are investing in companies that produce plant-based foods, but we know that not all plant-based foods are necessarily healthy. For example, some plant-based burgers or sausage rolls have been found to have higher levels of sodium or salt than their meat-based equivalents. This can be very confusing...
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My Lords, to address inequalities we need better data. We have heard from noble Lords about granular data in some areas, but in many areas we still need to collect data and publish it in a much more granular manner, based on region, ethnicity and income, but also other measures. What are the Government doing to improve the collection of data, and particularly its granularity, so that we can...
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My Lords, does the Minister agree that routine opt-out HIV testing—offering HIV tests to all patients in healthcare settings, such as emergency departments, unless they specifically decline—has proved highly effective, having identified over 1,000 cases of HIV that may well have gone undetected otherwise? Do the Government have any plans to extend this approach beyond the current pilot...
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My Lords, may I ask the Minister for some clarification? She talked about a 15% limit for a foreign state having an interest, but what if a number of foreign states got together and each bought up to a maximum of 15%? Is that also being considered by the Government?
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My Lords, we all know that being an unpaid carer is a profoundly challenging role that can take a serious toll on people’s physical and emotional health as they care for someone else—often, a relative, as we heard from my noble friend, or a young person. They are selfless individuals who put their own needs last. Can the Minister set out what steps the Government are taking to ensure that...
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I apologise, I do not want to detain the House any longer than is necessary. Just to clarify, will all the evidence before the Select Committee be published?
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My Lords, while genome screening of newborns is welcome and could be an important part of the prevention agenda, it raises a number of ethical issues. I will focus on just one: at what stage do you tell someone who has a high probability of getting a medical condition, say in their 40s or 50s, about the probability or even certainty of developing that condition, without causing undue distress...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Smith of Malvern on 16 October (HL Deb col 355) that “a statutory probation period will be introduced with light-touch standards for fair dismissal based on performance and stability”, what is the length of that statutory probation period and what are the grounds for dismissal during that period.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve access to community minor and urgent eye conditions services in England.
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To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to publish the minutes of the 19 September meeting of the Federated Data Platform Check and Challenge Group.
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To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Merron on 18 September (HL Deb cols 2398–2400) about genome screening of newborn infants, how long (1) newborn infants' DNA samples, and (2) genome sequencing data, will be kept.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan for the Genomic Laboratory Hubs to adopt standardised reporting templates for genomics reports.
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To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Merron on 18 September (HL Deb cols 2398–2400), whether any DNA samples collected for the Generation Study are (1) tested for conditions that may develop after five years old, and (2) kept for genome sequencing again at five years old.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to establish a single digital tracking system for cancer tissue samples provided for genomic testing so they can be tracked at every point of their journey.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that pathologists and genomics scientists work together to speed up the delivery of genomics results for lung cancer tissue samples.
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