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1522670

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Artificial Sweeteners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for promoting the use of Stevia as an alternative to processed sugar.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL2622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is aware that some businesses use artificial or other non-caloric sweeteners, including Stevia, to lower the sugar content of their products. It is an individual business decision to decide if and how the product is used, subject to legislation.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL2623 question first answered 07/11/2022 12:25:08 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1522671

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Artificial Sweeteners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what further steps they will take to encourage the greater use of Stevia in food and drink as a replacement for processed sugar.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL2623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is aware that some businesses use artificial or other non-caloric sweeteners, including Stevia, to lower the sugar content of their products. It is an individual business decision to decide if and how the product is used, subject to legislation.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL2622 question first answered 07/11/2022 12:25:08 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1522677

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Doctors: Private Sector
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports by the BBC on 10 October that doctors are being recruited illegally from Africa by private sector companies to work in the UK; and that such doctors are expected to work in private hospitals under conditions not allowed in the NHS.
tabling member printed	Lord Crisp
uin	HL2629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. All United Kingdom-based organisations recruiting and employing international doctors should follow the Code of Practice on Ethical International Recruitment. The Code includes a ‘red-list’ of countries from which health and care workers should not be actively recruited.</p><p>National Health Service organisations only use recruiters on the Ethical Recruiters List and breaching the Code may result in removal from the Ethical Recruiters List. All employers must abide by the legislation regarding workers’ rights in the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 07/11/2022 12:24:02 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3783 label Biography information for Lord Crisp

1522681

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Healthy Start Scheme: Telephone Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many calls have been made to the Healthy Start helpline in each of the most recent six months for which data are available.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
uin	HL2633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Number of calls</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2022</p></td><td><p>322,351</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2022</p></td><td><p>334,180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2022</p></td><td><p>297,852</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2022</p></td><td><p>372,036</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2022</p></td><td><p>426,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2022</p></td><td><p>215,358</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 07/11/2022 13:15:18 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4540 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Gloucester

1522682

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Healthy Start Scheme: Telephone Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what were the (1) average, and (2) longest, waiting times for calls made to the Healthy Start helpline in each of the most recent six months for which data are available.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
uin	HL2634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2022 answer text <p>The following table shows the average and longest waiting times in hours, minutes and seconds for calls to the Healthy Start helpline in each of the last six months for which data is available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Average speed of answer</p></td><td><p>Maximum waiting time</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2022</p></td><td><p>00:00:27</p></td><td><p>00:16:40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2022</p></td><td><p>00:00:07</p></td><td><p>00:10:27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2022</p></td><td><p>00:00:26</p></td><td><p>00:19:13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2022</p></td><td><p>00:14:01</p></td><td><p>00:58:50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2022</p></td><td><p>00:14:38</p></td><td><p>00:55:09</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2022</p></td><td><p>00:22:14</p></td><td><p>02:00:00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 16/11/2022 12:10:50 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4540 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Gloucester

1522683

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Healthy Start Scheme: Telephone Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many calls to the Healthy Start helpline have gone unanswered, due to lines being busy, in each of the most recent six months for which data are available.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
uin	HL2635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 07/11/2022 13:15:06 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4540 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Gloucester

1522684

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Healthy Start Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many recipients of Healthy Start vouchers are not in receipt of prepaid cards despite remaining eligible for the scheme.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
uin	HL2636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority estimates that as of 18 October 2022, there were 2,954 households previously were in receipt of paper vouchers which have not successfully applied to the NHS Healthy Start prepaid card scheme.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 07/11/2022 13:13:57 question first ministerially corrected 28/09/2023 10:34:54 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham previous answer version 31476 answering member printed Lord Markham answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4540 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Gloucester

1522685

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Healthy Start Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether (1) ministers, or (2) officials, have held discussions with Mastercard to address issues relating to Healthy Start prepaid cards which may prevent the introduction of an automatic registration scheme among eligible families.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
uin	HL2637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>There have been no specific discussions.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 07/11/2022 13:15:01 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4540 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Gloucester

1522693

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Water: Sewage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 13 October (HL2225), on how many occasions the Food Standards Agency was informed of sewage spills in (1) rivers, or (2) inshore waters, in each of the last three years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL2645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Incidents in rivers</p></td><td><p>Incidents in inshore waters</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 08/11/2022 12:26:22 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1522694

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Water: Sewage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 13 October (HL2225), which organisation is responsible for informing (1) commercial fishers, and (2) recreational anglers, about the food safety risks of fish caught in water polluted by sewage outflows.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL2646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>Where a local authority is aware of sewage pollution events which occur in its area, it will take action and inform interested parties of potential food safety risks, as needed. The local authority will inform the Food Standards Agency (FSA) if it determines the event presents a serious or widespread risk to public health. In such cases, the FSA will work with the local authority to assess the risks and provide risk management advice and risk assessment where necessary.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 08/11/2022 13:27:53 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch