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1697658

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date	20/03/2024
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	Mental Health Services: Standards
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 mental health services and reduce waiting times for those seeking treatment.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL3450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>We are providing record levels of investment and increasing the mental health workforce to expand and transform National Health Service mental health services, to expand access and reduce waiting times. Between 2018/19 and 2023/24, NHS spending on mental health has increased by £4.6 billion in cash terms, as compared to the target of £3.4 billion in cash terms set out at the time of the NHS Long Term Plan. The plan committed to grow the mental health workforce by an additional 27,000 staff between 2019/20 and 2023/24. We are making positive progress, delivering two-thirds of this, approximately 17,000, by September 2023, with further significant growth expected by the end of this financial year.</p><p>The NHS is also working towards implementing five new waiting time measures for people requiring mental healthcare in both accident and emergency and in the community, for both adults, and children and young people. This includes working towards improving the quality of data that we have on waiting times for people requiring mental healthcare in both accident and emergency and in the community. NHS England began publishing this new data in 2023 to improve transparency and drive local accountability.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 25/03/2024 16:06:26 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

1682664

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
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	Alzheimer's Disease: Health Services
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 treatment and care for patients with Alzheimer's.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL1634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>We want a society where every person with dementia, their families and carers, receive high quality, compassionate care, from diagnosis through to end of life. To improve care for patients with dementia, including those with Alzheimer’s disease, NHS England's RightCare team is refreshing the RightCare Dementia Scenario. The scenario works through the dementia well pathway journey from diagnosing well through to dying well, detailing optimal and sub optimal approaches, with associated costings for each. The RightCare team is developing a dementia model pathway based on data for each component of the dementia well pathway to provide a high-level view of what dementia care activity looks like for local areas and will support targeted support where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>There are also several potential new disease modifying treatments for Alzheimer’s disease in development. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS England and the Department are working closely to ensure that arrangements are in place to support the adoption of any new licensed and NICE recommended treatment for dementia as soon as possible.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 24/01/2024 12:50:08 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

1682665

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many offenders were transferred from prisons in (1) England, and (2) Wales, to prisons in Northern Ireland in (a) 2021, and (b) 2022.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL1635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>There were no transfers from prisons in England or Wales to Northern Ireland in 2021. In 2022, three prisoners were transferred from prisons in England and four from prisons in Wales.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 29/01/2024 18:01:23 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

1682666

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
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	Fisheries
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 UK is actively enforcing its fishing rights.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL1636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>As an independent coastal state, the UK has full responsibility over how it ensures compliance in its fisheries. All fishing vessels in UK waters are required to fish in accordance with UK laws and the conditions of their licences. As control and enforcement is a devolved matter, Defra, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive work together to share information and ensure a coordinated approach to monitoring, compliance and enforcement across UK waters.</p> answering member printed Lord Douglas-Miller question first answered 22/01/2024 18:00:00 answering member 5006 label Biography information for Lord Douglas-Miller
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

1682667

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
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	Cancer: Health Services
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 equitable access to cancer treatment and care across different regions of the UK; and what steps they are taking to improve cancer survival rates.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL1637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>Reducing inequalities and variation in cancer treatment is a priority for this Government as is increasing early cancer diagnosis, as this is a key contributor to reducing cancer health inequalities. People in deprived areas are at greater risk of contracting cancer, more likely to have a cancer diagnosed at a later stage and suffer from higher cancer death rates and poorer survival. Survival rates have been improving for almost all cancers and across all demographics, with 74.6% people surviving a year after diagnosis, up from 65.6% in 2005, and 55.7% surviving five years, up from 47.9% in 2005.</p><p>The National Health Service has rolled out Targeted Lung Health Checks, prioritising more deprived areas, so that people in the most deprived quintile are now more likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer at an early stage, namely stage one or two, than those in the least deprived quintile, giving them a much greater chance of survival.</p><p>On 14 August 2023, the Government published a strategic framework for the Major Conditions Strategy to consider the six conditions, including cancer, that contribute most to morbidity and mortality across the population in England, including cancer. The Major Conditions Strategy will apply a geographical lens to each condition to address regional disparities in health outcomes, supporting the levelling up mission to narrow the gap in healthy life expectancy by 2030.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 24/01/2024 12:47:56 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

1682668

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to enhance UK border security and immigration enforcement.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL1638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office’s priority is to deliver a safe and secure border and we will never compromise on this. Border Force maintain 100% checks for all scheduled arriving passengers into the UK and this will be continued during any period.</p><p>Border Force deploys to risk using tested, but continually assessed, intelligence and targeting techniques. Border Force does not publish information on operational activities. Doing so would publicise operational practices which would be used to assist in the evasion of customs controls and compromise border security.</p><p>Immigration Enforcement is taking robust action to tackle illegal migration through:</p><ul><li>returning more than 24,000 people in 2023 who have no right to be in the UK, including more than 5,500 Albanians;</li><li>increasing enforcement visits, with 10,509 in the first 9 months of 2023 compared to 6,865 in the same period in 2022 and 5,576 people arrested linked to these compared to 2,175 in the previous year; and</li><li>disrupting organised crime groups, resulting in 246 arrests of people smugglers in 2023.</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 30/01/2024 17:09:05 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

1682669

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Torture
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers who have claimed to be victims of torture have been detained at immigration centres.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL1639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the information requested, as it can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 30/01/2024 17:02:25 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

1675710

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of people who have entered the UK illegally via Northern Ireland’s border with the Republic of Ireland during the last 12 months.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>To maintain the highest standards of accuracy, the Home Office prefers to refer to published data, as this has been subject to rigorous quality assurance under National Statistics protocols prior to publication.</p><p>Information about illegal entry to the UK is not currently available in our published data.</p><p>Our published data is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-september-2023" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics, year ending September 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 19/12/2023 16:57:22 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore