Results 81–100 of 2586 for speaker:Baroness Walmsley

Cannabis: Medicinal Use - Question (12 Jul 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, I understand that the MHRA is considering extending its compassionate access scheme, particularly regarding the import of Celixir20 from Israel. A number of children with rare forms of drug-resistant epilepsy rely on this medicine. Given the severity of the crisis of access to NHS prescriptions for medicinal cannabis, can the Minister ensure that there are no barriers to the MHRA...

Health Improvement and Food Production - Motion to Take Note ( 7 Jul 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, I thank the Minister and everybody who has taken part in this small but perfectly formed debate. It has been cross-departmental, which is why I asked Defra to send the Minister some notes. If the Defra Minister had been responding, I think the noble Lord would have had to send him some notes, and vice versa. It was quite a difficult challenge for the Minister to have such a...

Health Improvement and Food Production - Motion to Take Note ( 7 Jul 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, it is a pleasure to introduce this debate about three things very close to my heart: food, the health of our population and the planet. I do not need to explain the very strong link between these three. We produce some excellent food in this country, but our farmers and fishermen have had a tough time over the last few years, especially if their markets are abroad and if they rely...

South Africa: Just Energy Transition Partnership - Question (30 Jun 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, given the time it takes to set up the enabling projects, et cetera, required to achieve the objectives of this scheme, are the Government talking to partners and other appropriate third-world countries and having early discussions about how such partnerships can be set up as soon as possible, or are they waiting for COP 27?

Social Care: Children - Question (22 Jun 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: The report recommends technology to achieve frictionless sharing of information, and a national data and technology task force. Is this the body that would decide on the unique identifying number for which the children’s workforce has been calling, to avoid children disappearing through the cracks between services?

Social Care: Children - Question (22 Jun 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, since there is time, I will ask another question. The review calls for a reformed children’s social care system to be based on children’s rights, putting children’s voices at the centre of decisions. What framework will the Government use for this approach? Will they consider using the existing UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?

New Homes Commitment - Question (21 Jun 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, can the Minister tell us that all the new houses will be built with a high level of insulation, the quality of which is properly inspected, and will not be fitted with gas boilers but will be heated by renewable energy?

Procedure and Privileges Committee - Membership Motion (16 Jun 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, the noble Lord raises a point that we might all be concerned about. I think Back-Benchers would like to know about these trigger points. I had not noticed that they were there. Back-Benchers would need to know what the criteria are, because people would always want to avoid them. There needs to be total agreement about the level of offence that would contravene one of the points....

Procedure and Privileges Committee - Membership Motion (16 Jun 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, for information, it may not be possible for noble Lords to get a train home on Wednesday, so that might affect people’s decision to come down on Monday.

Personal Protective Equipment: Waste - Question (14 Jun 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, at the beginning of the pandemic a great deal of PPE which was in store was already out of date and could not be used. Any homemaker knows that you look at the use-by date of the stuff in your fridge and try to use it before it goes out of date. Can the Minister say whether there is now a proper record-keeping system for the use-by dates of any PPE that is in store in anticipation...

Government Food Strategy - Statement (13 Jun 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, there is much to say about this “Let them eat venison” food strategy—although there is not a lot of meat in it. It is full of vague intentions and grand promises such as a school food revolution. It seems to me that when this Government want to hide the fact that they have chickened out of doing something really revolutionary, they call it a revolution. Sadly, they have failed...

High-rise Buildings: Evacuation of Disabled Residents - Question (25 May 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: Did I understand the Minister to say in a previous answer, that in the absence of PEEPs, in the case of a fire, it could be up to family and friends to get a disabled person out?

Sugar Reduction Programme: Bread - Question (25 May 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, will the Minister join me in congratulating Tesco and Sainsbury’s? They have announced that, even though the Government are backtracking on the proposed ban on volume promotion offers of foods high in sugar, salt and fat, they will do it voluntarily anyway, and on time, to support the anti-obesity campaign. Will he encourage other retailers to join them and to work with their...

Safeguarding of Young Children - Question (24 May 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, is the Minister aware that both Scotland and Wales have banned parents and carers from hitting their children? Is she interested to know that, when I had a meeting with the Minister responsible for this area in another place to ask why England is not considering doing the same, she told me that she was working incredibly hard and that this was not at the top of her to-do list? In...

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence - Question (23 May 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: One of the ambitions in the life sciences vision is to enable early diagnosis and treatment, including immunotherapies such as cancer vaccines. However, last year, 20 treatment evaluations were paused because of lack of capacity at NICE. If successful R&D cannot be translated into treatments because of lack of NICE evaluations, how will that impact on commercial incentives and the ambitions...

Catapults (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note (19 May 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, it was a privilege to be a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee, under the able leadership of the noble Lord, Lord Patel, when we produced the report on catapults. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Mair, on his excellent introductory speech. He emphasised the need to increase the scale of funding for the catapults, commensurate with the Government’s great...

Queen’s Speech - Debate (5th Day) (17 May 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, I too welcome the mention in the gracious Speech of the long-awaited draft mental health Bill, but that has been covered extremely well by my noble friend Lady Tyler and I agree with all the points she made, so I will go no further on that. However, since the Speech, which followed quickly on the heels of the Health and Care Act, we heard at the weekend that the Government intend,...

Health and Care Bill - Commons Amendments: Motion A1 (as an amendment to Motion A) (26 Apr 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, I begin by welcoming Motion B, which puts in place government Amendments 30C to 30K, laid in another place. They relate to the Secretary of State’s role in major NHS reconfigurations and are a credit to the Minister, his ministerial team and the Bill team. They have listened to the strong arguments from across this House, led so ably by the noble Lord, Lord Stevens of Birmingham,...

Folic Acid Fortification - Question ( 6 Apr 2022)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, over the past two years, the Government have made urgent decisions about Covid-19 to save lives and save sickness. Why can they not, in light of the strength of the evidence we already have, make a similarly urgent decision on this issue to save harm to 400 babies a year?


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