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1682796

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date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Forests: Commodities
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to ensure that regulated persons in relation to forest risk commodities establish and implement due diligence systems in relation to those commodities, as required under the Environment Act 2021.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL1678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK Government introduced new legislation through the Environment Act to tackle illegal deforestation in UK supply chains. Recent research estimates that around 70% of global tropical deforestation for commercial agriculture between 2013 and 2019 was conducted in violation of national laws.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced further details of our Forest Risk Commodities regulations at COP28 in December. The new law will make it illegal for larger organisations, with a global annual turnover of more than £50m, to use key forest risk commodities produced on land illegally occupied or used. Initial secondary legislation will focus on four commodities identified as key drivers of deforestation: cattle products (excluding dairy), cocoa, palm oil and soy.</p><p> </p><p>Organisations in scope will also be required to undertake a due diligence exercise on their supply chains and to report on this exercise annually. To ensure transparency, information about businesses' due diligence exercises will be published.  Businesses in scope that do not comply with these requirements may be subject to fines and other civil sanctions. The secondary legislation required to operationalise the Environment Act provisions will be laid as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 23/01/2024 15:31:28 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1682806

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the average length of time taken by HMRC to process tax payments.
tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
uin	HL1688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The average time taken to process tax payments is two working days. This is from the date the customer makes payment to the date it is shown on the customer’s HMRC record (plus postage time if the customer pays by cheque).</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 23/01/2024 17:43:28 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton

1682814

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
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	Courts: Medical Records
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what checks are in place to ensure that information from NHS records used in courts has been obtained without coercion.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL1697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department does not routinely monitor how National Health Service records are used in courts but there are extensive safeguards in place to ensure people are not being coerced to access their medical records online, which NHS England has developed by engaging with professional bodies, patients, charities, and safeguarding experts.</p><p> </p><p>This engagement has also helped shape NHS England’s patient and general practitioner (GP) communications packs and advice, the messages issued on the NHS App and the NHS website and system changes. Communication packs have also been issued to over 50 charities which support people who may be at risk.</p><p> </p><p>People can only access their prospective records via the NHS App. Before viewing their record in the NHS App, users are given advice about what to do if they are being pressured to share their information. Patients are able to prevent access via an online process, by disabling their NHS login or can request that their GP redact details of specific consultations or treatment.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 24/01/2024 12:34:53 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1682817

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
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	Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the recommendation for an Independent Redress Agency in the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review report First Do No Harm, published on 8 July 2020.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL1701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government has asked the Patient Safety Commissioner, Dr Henrietta Hughes, to undertake work looking at redress for people harmed by pelvic mesh and sodium valproate. The work is intended to focus on the views of those affected, improving the understanding of how many people have been affected and how, the case for redress and what form it could take.</p><p>The Patient Safety Commissioner office has stated that the report setting out the findings from this work is expected to be published on 7 February this year. The Government will consider the report’s findings before deciding how to proceed on this matter.</p><p>The Government published its response to the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety review in July 2021, which did not accept the recommendation to establish a redress agency, this position remains unchanged.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL1652 question first answered 24/01/2024 12:09:30 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1682825

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date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Food: Inflation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to manage grocery inflation in light of disruption to the Red Sea and the potential delay in shipping times.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL1709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK has a highly resilient food supply chain, which is well equipped to deal with situations with the potential to cause disruption.</p><p> </p><p>Our high degree of food security is built on supply from diverse sources: strong domestic production as well as imports through stable trade routes. The proportion of UK food imports using the Red Sea routes is extremely small and we do not expect the disruption to have a significant impact on UK consumer food prices in the short term.</p><p> </p><p>We produce 60% of all the food we need, and 73% of food which we can grow or rear in the UK for all or part of the year. These figures have changed little over the last 20 years, and the Government is committed to maintaining the amount of food produced domestically to support our farmers.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Douglas-Miller question first answered 23/01/2024 14:44:14 answering member 5006 label Biography information for Lord Douglas-Miller
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1682842

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
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	Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Drugs
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 there is a sufficient and reliable supply of medicines to help patients suffering from ADHD.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL1670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>Disruptions to the supply of medicines used for the management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been primarily driven by issues which have resulted in capacity constraints at key manufacturing sites. The Department has been working closely with the respective manufacturers and some issues have now been resolved. However, we know that there continue to be disruptions to the supply of some other medicines, which should largely resolve by April or May 2024. We have also added ADHD products to the list of medicines that cannot be exported from, or hoarded in, the United Kingdom to protect UK supplies for patients.</p><p>There is a team within the Department that deals specifically with medicine supply problems arising both in the community and in hospitals. It has well-established procedures to manage medicine supply issues, whatever the cause, and help to prevent shortages and minimise risks to patients by working closely with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the pharmaceutical industry, NHS England, and others operating in the supply chain.</p><p>We understand how frustrating and distressing medicine supply issues can be and we want to assure patients that we are working with the respective manufacturers to resolve the issues with ADHD medicine supply in the UK as soon as possible and to help ensure patients are able to access these medicines in the short and long term.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 23/01/2024 15:32:48 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1682848

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of taking the use case of large capacity L-Category vehicles into consideration when setting proposed phase-out dates for new non-zero emission (a) mopeds and (b) motorcycles.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	9983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The consultation on when to end the sale of new non-zero emission L-category vehicles was open to responses from 14 July to 21 September 2022 and supported by a thorough programme of stakeholder engagement, which is ongoing. The Department is now analysing the responses, including points raised on the use cases of these vehicles, and will bring forward the Government’s response in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 23/01/2024 13:18:16 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1682849

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Divorce: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which Ministers are responsible for reviewing the (a) law and (b) practice relating to the provision of support for children whose parents separate or divorce.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	9984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>Ministers work closely across government to support children, including those going through parental separation or divorce.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is responsible for private family law, which includes child arrangements upon separation, marriage and divorce. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the MoJ responsible for this is Lord Bellamy KC.</p><p>David Johnston MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing at the Department for Education, works closely with Lord Bellamy KC at the MoJ, including through jointly chairing the national Family Justice Board, which is focused on providing the best possible outcomes for the children and families that come into contact with the family justice system.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 25/01/2024 14:50:59 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1682850

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he is taking steps to help increase access to public transport for people who (a) unemployed, (b) have a low household income and (c) cannot drive.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	10115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>The government has taken many steps to ensure that public transport is affordable for people across the country. These include the recent announcement of a further £1 billion, redirected from HS2 by reason of the Prime Minister’s Network North announcement, to deliver better bus services in the North and the Midlands. This funding will make services more frequent, more reliable, cheaper, and easier to use. This is part of over £4.5 billion announced by the government to support and improve bus services since 2020.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, in January 2023 the Department introduced the £2 cap on single bus fares in England outside of London, since extended until the end of 2024, taking total government funding to deliver the cap to nearly £600 million.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/01/2024 11:15:32 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1682851

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to confirm the next Chair of the BBC.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	10157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>As per the BBC Royal Charter, the BBC Chair appointment is made by Order in Council. The appointment of Dr Samir Shah CBE as the next Chair of the BBC will be put to the next meeting of the Privy Council for final approval, due to take place in February.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 22/01/2024 12:18:03 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire