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Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Fractures: Health Services (18 Dec 2023)

Baroness Altmann: To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to announce funding for improved fracture liaison services across England to avoid a postcode lottery relating to early detection of osteoporosis.

Levelling Up: North-east England - Question (14 Dec 2023)

Lord Khan of Burnley: ...have cut £15 billion from local authority budgets. What is the progress in levelling up regional equalities to ensure that the quality of someone’s later life will not remain a postcode lottery? Is it not the case that the Government embarked on creating a northern powerhouse but instead have delivered a northern poorhouse?

Loot Boxes in Video Games - Question (13 Dec 2023)

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay: ...strengthening the land-based age-verification regime; we have taken steps to target online adverts away from children; and, of course, we have increased the minimum age to participate in society lotteries and football pools to 18. The Committee of Advertising Practice also updated advertising rules last year, so that gambling adverts cannot be designed in a way that has a strong appeal to...

Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Motion to Approve: Amendment to the Motion (12 Dec 2023)

Lord Davies of Brixton: ...We have a Government who seem to think it appropriate for these people to have a vote, but who do not think it appropriate for them to have the pension increases they have paid for. It is a total lottery. If they live in the US, they get pension increases; if they live in Canada, they do not. If they live in New Zealand, they get increases; if they live in Australia, they do not. The...

Written Answers — Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Music: Education (12 Dec 2023)

John Whittingdale: ..., such as the Royal Opera House (which receives more than £22 million per annum), which has recently staged Handel’s oratorio Jeptha. Arts Council England’s open programmes (such as National Lottery Project Grants, and Develop Your Creative Practice) have also supported individuals and organisations delivering baroque music. This support is open to organisations and individuals across...

Tackling Islamophobia ( 7 Dec 2023)

Andrew Slaughter: ...educational, social and cultural hub. Particularly in areas such as London, where land and property are hugely expensive, that is made very difficult. We live in straitened times but, through the lottery and other money, there is potential to provide that. However, increasingly I see Muslim communities not having the resources that they should have and being discriminated against in that...

Fatalities in Childbirth: Statutory Leave and Pay ( 6 Dec 2023)

Theo Clarke: ...in a meaningful way; recruit more midwives to ensure safe levels of staffing in maternity care; ensure that perinatal mental health services are available across the UK, so that we end the postcode lottery; ensure that the post-natal six-week check with a GP is offered to all mothers, and includes questions about the mother’s physical and mental health, as well as about the baby; ensure...

Hertfordshire SEND Services: Ofsted Findings ( 6 Dec 2023)

Daisy Cooper: ...City Council when its SEND services were found to be failing? There is no doubt that SEND services are in crisis right across England. In the longer term, I urge the Government to end the postcode lottery of provision. Liberal Democrats would establish a national body to fund high needs SEND, and take pressure off local councils’ decimated balance sheets. But today I ask Minister to step...

Horserace Betting Levy Board and Horse Welfare ( 6 Dec 2023)

George Eustice: ...The HBLB was established under the Horserace Betting Levy Act 1961, which was amended by several other Acts. The HBLB is currently principally governed by the provisions of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963. That Act sets out three quite broad criteria for the HBLB to pursue, which are improving breeding, investment in veterinary science, and another incredibly broad provision,...

Scottish Parliament: Rutherglen Cultural Activities (Promotion and Support) ( 6 Dec 2023)

Christina McKelvie: ...is an extraordinary symbol of the endurance of the burgh. For such celebrations, Rutherglen organisations and individuals can apply to Creative Scotland’s open fund, and to the National Lottery Community Fund’s awards for all, to seek support for the event. Creative Scotland may also provide advice regarding further applications and other potential funding opportunities after contact...

Prime Minister: Engagements ( 6 Dec 2023)

Jack Brereton: ...town deals, or from the latest long-term plan for towns. Will my right hon. Friend ensure that it can have some investment from the Government, and does he agree that some of the latest National Lottery Heritage Fund award to Stoke-on-Trent should definitely be invested there?

Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill - Second Reading ( 5 Dec 2023)

Lord Vaizey of Didcot: ...example, Tate is already regulated by DCMS and there are exemptions in the Bill for suppliers of services regulated by Ofcom. In the other place, the Minister introduced an amendment excluding the lottery as having charitable ends and already being regulated elsewhere. Surely, something similar should apply to other charities too. Have the impacts on charitable memberships been considered,...

Victims and Prisoners Bill: New Clause 20 - Domestic abuse related death reviews ( 4 Dec 2023)

Sarah Champion: ..., and because they are often digitally excluded. My new clause 6 would require the Government to carry out an assessment of specialist support services across the country to end the postcode lottery. Amendments 4, 17 and 18 would include stalking in the Bill. Given that there were 1.5 million stalking victims in 2021, it is imperative that they have advocates. The Suzy Lamplugh Trust has...

Written Answers — Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Historic Buildings: Havering ( 4 Dec 2023)

John Whittingdale: ...buildings at risk. Historic England itself offers public funding for sites which are most in need of repair and which, without additional investment, would be at risk of deterioration. The National Lottery Heritage Fund will also factor the Heritage at Risk Register into its assessments of applications for its National Lottery Grants for Heritage.

Written Answers — Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Film: Romford ( 4 Dec 2023)

John Whittingdale: ...the moving image, and Local Authorities. For this reason, we have not made our own assessment of the potential merits of allocating financial support to the Romford Film Festival. The BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund provides support to ambitious, audience-facing independent UK and international film and broader screen activity of national scale. The fund supports film...

Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Topical Questions ( 4 Dec 2023)

Jonathan Gullis: Does my hon. Friend agree that Stoke-on-Trent City Council should invest its share of the £200 million that it recently secured from the National Lottery Heritage Fund on one of the three beautiful “beasts” of Burslem, including the indoor market, in order to regenerate the mother town, for which the leader of Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a local ward councillor?

School Pupils with Allergies — [Graham Stringer in the Chair] (30 Nov 2023)

Sharon Hodgson: ...urgent need for school-wide, mandatory, standardised allergy policies—not just guidelines—that would standardise provision and protection in all schools across the country and end the postcode lottery of provision that so tragically results in up to six children—I think that is the figure the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton gave—dying in their schools each year, with many more...

National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) Bill (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Graham: ...a wider range of services, sports, culture and leisure, and cultural regeneration and the role of heritage are incredibly important to any city. Gloucester’s more than 40 wins from the National Lottery Heritage Fund have brought alive our old buildings and rebuilt pride in the city. These things are all part of answering, “Are you better off today than you were in 2010? Is where you...

National Health Service: 75th Anniversary - Motion to Take Note (30 Nov 2023)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...Johnson promised to fix social care? That went well. As a minimum, every vulnerable person should expect an assessment and some form of care and support. In the long term, we have to end the lottery of care which leaves many people who are above the means-tested level none the less struggling hugely to pay care home fees. Primary care also needs a reset. I commend Sir John Oldham who,...

Hospice Services: South Devon (29 Nov 2023)

Peter Gibson: ...care in the Health and Social Care Act 2012, our integrated care boards need to step up to the plate and properly commission these services universally across the country, ending the postcode lottery.


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