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1715948

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date	07/05/2024
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	Obesity: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to undertake a review into levels of childhood obesity and the role that the promotion of meals, snacks and drinks in early years settings can play in combatting this trend.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL4398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework (EYFS) sets the standards that all early years providers must meet, for the learning, development, and care of children from birth to five years old. The EYFS requires that where children are provided with meals, snacks, and drinks, they must be healthy, balanced, and nutritious. The EYFS also refers to example menus and guidance, which support parents, carers, and anyone working with children, to provide healthy food options. The Department for Education has also very recently published a range of tools and advice to support childminders, nursery leaders, and pre-school practitioners to improve the food offered in early years settings on the Help for early years providers platform.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 17/05/2024 11:51:56 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1701967

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
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	Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect updated NHS wait times to be published for 2022 and 2023.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL3882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>NHS England publishes Referral to Treatment Waiting Times data for elective treatment monthly in an online-only format, including for 2022 and 2023. There are no plans to revise waiting times figures for these years.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 23/04/2024 11:39:06 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1701968

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
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	Dementia: Diagnosis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the NHS is prepared for the arrival of new diagnostic innovations for dementia.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL3883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>The National Health Service is a world leader in rolling out innovative treatments and has established a dedicated national programme team which is working in partnership with other national agencies and with local health systems to prepare for the potential roll out of new treatments for use in the earlier stages of Alzheimer’s disease. These plans assume that, if these new treatments are approved by the regulators, significant additional diagnostic capacity, including amyloid positron emission tomography–computed tomography, lumbar puncture and magnetic resonance imaging, will be needed both to identify patients who are most able to benefit and to provide important safety monitoring.</p><p>The national programme team is conducting preparations across the country, working alongside clinicians and local teams to identify where further funding will be required to roll out the additional tests and services needed to introduce these new and complex treatments.</p><p>NHS England is also working with partner agencies to support and inform further research into other diagnostic modalities, including blood-based biomarker and digital tests, which will help improve identification and management of Alzheimer’s disease.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 25/04/2024 14:26:03 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1684623

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
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	Infant Foods: Cost of Living
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve access to infant formula for families who need it but are finding that rising costs are making it unaffordable.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL1852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2024 answer text <p>We are committed to promoting a healthy diet for children and providing support to families who need it the most through our Healthy Start scheme, which can be used towards the cost of infant formula. In April 2021, the value of Healthy Start rose from £3.10 to £4.25 per week, providing additional support to pregnant women and families on lower incomes to make healthy food choices. Children aged under one year old receive £8.50 in total per week, a rise from £6.20 a week.</p><p>Infant formula legislation under the Retained Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/127 sets robust nutritional and compositional standards to ensure that all infant formulas, including cheaper options, provide all the nutrients a healthy baby needs.</p><p>The Government launched the Household Support Fund in 2021 which was distributed by councils in England to directly help vulnerable households meet daily needs such as food, clothing, and utilities. The Government announced an extension of the fund to March 2024, which means since 2021 the fund has made £2.5 billion available to families most in need of support.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 02/02/2024 11:57:36 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1673026

registered interest
date	27/11/2023
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	Care Workers: Migrant Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have made to address concerns in the social care sector about the closure of care homes caused by the loss of staff from overseas as a result of restrictions on staff bringing their families to the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of international recruitment to ensure we have sufficient supply of care workers and senior care workers. This is why the Government decided to add care workers to the Shortage Occupation List in February 2022, in response to unprecedented workforce pressures.</p><p>On 4 December 2023, the Secretary of State for the Home Department announced a five-point plan to curb legal net migration, including removing the right for care workers and senior care workers to bring dependants to the United Kingdom and restricting access to the route to employers who are regulated by the Care Quality Commission. The Secretary of State for the Home Department has committed to put estimates of the impact of these announcements in the House of Commons Library. This will be set out in due course.</p><p>The Government is committed to building a sustainable adult social care workforce. As part of this, international recruitment has bolstered the workforce with 101,000 out of country visa grants for care workers and senior care workers to the year ending September 2023. While at home, we are backing domestic recruitment with our National Recruitment Campaign, working with the Department for Work and Pensions to promote adult social care careers, and funding sector partner to support employers and commissioners to improve recruitment and retention.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 19/12/2023 17:03:54 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1456898

registered interest
date	05/04/2022
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	Health Services: Refugees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many refugees from Afghanistan have been registered with the NHS; and how many have been provided with access to (1) a GP, and (2) maternal, (3) dental, and (4) mental health, services, within the past year.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL7696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2022 answer text <p>We do not hold the data in the format requested. Clinical systems do not record whether individuals have been resettled through an Afghan resettlement scheme.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 12/04/2022 12:07:49 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1283729

registered interest
date	03/02/2021
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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to establish regional telephone hotlines for the public to use to ask questions related to COVID-19 vaccines.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL12950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2021 answer text <p>There are no plans to establish regional telephone hotlines.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 14/04/2021 11:05:30 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1256351

registered interest
date	27/11/2020
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	Coronavirus: Research
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support studies which (1) include non-hospitalised individuals, and (2) are of sufficient scale to be valid, to determine the ages at which critical health changes in response to COVID-19 occur.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL10807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2020 answer text <p>The Department, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and UK Research and Innovation, have launched a £20 million joint research call to fund ambitious and comprehensive research to understand and address the longer term physical and mental health effects of COVID-19 in non-hospitalised individuals. The aim is to support two or three large consortia and a number of extensions to existing studies. These studies will be robust and of sufficient scale to include analysis of age and other factors.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 07/12/2020 16:31:37 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1256352

registered interest
date	27/11/2020
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	Coronavirus: Research
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support studies (1) in a community setting, and (2) that extend into the convalescent period, to establish factors that affect the duration of effective immunity to COVID-19.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL10808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2020 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are jointly funding the United Kingdom Coronavirus Immunology Consortium with £6.5 million, which will address key research themes on immunity to COVID-19 including cross reactivity with seasonal coronaviruses.</p><p> </p><p>Other relevant NIHR-UKRI funded studies include the STORY study to understand the severity of COVID-19 disease in children and evaluate antibody responses; Virus Watch looking at household transmission; and the INSTINCT study investigating the epidemiology and immunology of COVID-19 infection in households.</p><p> </p><p>The NIHR’s Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections is also looking at the size and longevity of the immune response.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL10809 question first answered 07/12/2020 16:26:50 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1256353

registered interest
date	27/11/2020
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	Coronavirus: Research
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support studies investigating the effect of (1) co-infection, and (2) vaccination against other pathogens, on COVID-19 immunity.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL10809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2020 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are jointly funding the United Kingdom Coronavirus Immunology Consortium with £6.5 million, which will address key research themes on immunity to COVID-19 including cross reactivity with seasonal coronaviruses.</p><p> </p><p>Other relevant NIHR-UKRI funded studies include the STORY study to understand the severity of COVID-19 disease in children and evaluate antibody responses; Virus Watch looking at household transmission; and the INSTINCT study investigating the epidemiology and immunology of COVID-19 infection in households.</p><p> </p><p>The NIHR’s Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections is also looking at the size and longevity of the immune response.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL10808 question first answered 07/12/2020 16:26:50 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie