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1668094

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
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	Babylon Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will commission an independent review into their (1) relationship with, and (2) outcomes, from their work with Babylon Health.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL42
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>The Department of Health and Social Care does not have any current plans to commission an independent review of Babylon Health.</p><p>In 2018, NHS Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS England commissioned Ipsos Mori to undertake an independent evaluation of the Babylon GP at Hand practice. The final report was published in May 2019 and is publicly available.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 04/12/2023 16:33:05 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1461077

registered interest
date	10/05/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	NATO Enlargement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will publish a statement setting out their strategy on expanding NATO membership, in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
tabling member printed	Lord Coaker
uin	HL42
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>The UK has always been a committed supporter of NATO's Open Door Policy, enshrined in Article 10 of the Washington Treaty which founded NATO in 1949. NATO's expansion has been pivotal in spreading democracy, free speech and the rule of law across Europe. Each nation has the right to choose its own security arrangements. Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine has fundamentally changed European security and it is understandable that faced with this threat, countries may review their security arrangements, including considering applying to join the alliance and to benefit from its collective security guarantees.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 23/05/2022 15:34:21 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

1313650

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Cyprus: Birds
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of Cyprus about the killing of migrant birds.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL42
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2021 answer text <p>The UK Government opposes the illegal trapping of birds, which is a widespread issue across the whole of Cyprus. Whilst songbirds are a protected species under Cypriot law, trapping and eating song birds unfortunately remains a practice in some Cypriot communities, and substantial profits can still be made by those who organise and control this activity. The Government has conveyed the strength of UK public concern to the Government of Cyprus, including during a May 2019 visit by the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Rt Hon Thérèse Coffey. The UK and the Republic of Cyprus will continue to work together on the issue.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 24/05/2021 11:04:21 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1168584

registered interest
date	19/12/2019
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	NHS: Amazon
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what monitoring arrangements in relation to (1) patient confidentiality, (2) intellectual property, and (3) other data, have been built into the agreement to share NHS health data with Amazon.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL42
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>The agreement between the Department and Amazon is clear that none of the data generated will be shared with third parties; that it will not be used for selling products or making product recommendations to Amazon users; nor is it building any form of health profiles on Amazon customers.</p><p>NHS Digital are working closely with Amazon to assess the effectiveness of the service. The algorithm used by Amazon is still learning and will be updated continuously to learn how people are asking questions about health conditions.</p><p>All information is treated with high confidentiality and Amazon use multi-factor authentication to restrict access, service encryption, and audits of our control environment to protect it. No Amazon employee has direct access to information that can identify the person or account, and Amazon have the appropriate measures in place to ensure General Data Protection Regulation compliance.</p><p>Patients already use Alexa and other devices to search for health information on a range of health issues. This agreement ensures that the information they receive from Alexa is medically verified by the National Health Service instead of from a range of other sources, such as non-United Kingdom websites.</p><p>This agreement is not exclusive. There are over 2,000 other organisations that are accessing and using information from the NHS website in a similar way.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 07/01/2020 17:56:16 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1149749

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Timber: Packaging
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in enabling British exporters to conform with wooden packing requirements under International Standards For Phytosanitary Measures No. 15 following the UK's departure from the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court
uin	HL42
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Defra, the Forestry Commission and other relevant UK plant health authorities have established a strong and trusted relationship with the wood packaging material (WPM) sector who understand what actions they will need to take to manage these new international standards for plant health, International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures No. 15 (ISPM15). Both the UK WPM industry body Timcon and the EU WPM industry body FEFPEB have released no deal statements to help their members and businesses which use WPM to prepare in the event of a no deal exit. Further, the WPM industry bodies are improving ISPM15 processes and increasing their supply of ISPM15 certified WPM in preparation for EU exit.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 29/10/2019 16:51:04 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4586 label Biography information for Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court

731034

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to make representations to the government of Israel regarding demands to carry out the army demolition order issued against the school at Khan al Akhmar
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL42
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>We have raised strong concerns about demolitions in Khan al Ahmar with the Israeli authorities, most recently on 7 April. We understand that the Israeli High Court will be holding a hearing on this proposed demolition on 25 September alongside a petition calling for the demolition of the 46 other structures in the Bedouin community.​</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/07/2017 14:48:56 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

518748

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Israel: Bedouin
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 29 April (HL7749), whether they have identified any prospective disadvantages of the Right to Roam policy; and if so, what those disadvantages are.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL42
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government has not identified any prospective disadvantages of the right of access for open-air recreation on foot on open country (mountain, moor, heath and down) and registered common land which is provided for under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. The Act was passed by a previous Government after public consultation and an appraisal of a number of options for increasing access to land where access had not been allowed before.</p><p> </p><p>The legislation was therefore framed so that the right of access over such areas was carefully balanced against the needs of land managers, businesses and wildlife. Areas such as houses and their gardens, and buildings or their curtilage, are automatically exempt from the right of access to avoid intrusion on people’s privacy even where they fall within land which appears on a map of open access land.</p><p> </p><p>The open access regime also includes general restrictions at the national level that exclude specific potentially damaging activities from the right of access and controls on people walking with dogs. To supplement these, local temporary restrictions on the right of access may be put in place to limit where people go or what they do, if it is necessary to protect against the harm that any access may cause to sensitive landscape or wildlife habitat, public safety or the ability of landowners to manage their land.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 26/05/2016 15:02:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

346804

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Neighbourhood Plans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether parish councils can make a Neighbourhood Development Plan jointly for all or part of their areas, and if so, under what provision.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL42
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>Whilst information is not collected centrally, our informal monitoring tells us that as of the end of May 2015:</p><p> </p><ul><li>referendums have been held on the making of 67 neighbourhood plans. In each case the majority of those who voted were in favour of the neighbourhood plan being made (on average 89% of those voting voted in favour). 62 of the neighbourhood plans were instigated by a parish council and five by designated neighbourhood forums.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>in total, 274 communities have carried out, or are currently carrying out, pre-submission consultation and publicity on a neighbourhood plan proposal.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>1,221 communities across England have applied for a neighbourhood area to be designated (the first formal step in the process) but have not yet undertaken pre-submission consultation and publicity on a neighbourhood plan proposal.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>one Neighbourhood Development Order (Cockermouth) and three Community Right to Build Orders (Ferring) have been made (brought into force). A Neighbourhood Development Order grants planning permission for specific development or a class of development in a specified neighbourhood area (a community right to build order is a type of neighbourhood development order).</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A local planning authority must publish a map setting out the areas that are for the time being designated as neighbourhood areas. Details of the locations of neighbourhood planning across England, by local authority, can be found in the attached list. An interactive map with details of the referendums can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.thinglink.com/scene/647092767838699520" target="_blank">https://www.thinglink.com/scene/647092767838699520</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A single parish council (as a relevant body) can apply for a multi-parished neighbourhood area to be designated as long as that multi-parished area includes all or part of that parish council’s administrative area. When the parish council begins to develop a neighbourhood plan or an Order (as a qualifying body) it needs to secure the consent of the other parish councils to undertake neighbourhood planning activities. The relevant provision is set out in section 61F of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as applied to neighbourhood plans by section 38C of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL38 HL39 HL40 HL41 question first answered 10/06/2015 13:03:25 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name 150610 Lord Greaves HL39 -HL42 1081662-1081666 -locations of NP.docx title 150610 Neighbourhood planing locations in England
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

57569

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made on defining complex needs for the Disabled Students' Allowance.
tabling member printed	Lord Addington
uin	HL42
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Extensive discussions are underway with a wide range of stakeholders to help inform the Disabled Students' Allowances (DSA) Guidance for 2015/16, due this autumn. The guidance will set out the conditions under which DSA will apply. Students will continue to undergo individual study needs assessments, but their needs will be met by DSA and Higher Education Institutions through their duties under the Equality Act.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL43 question first answered 18/06/2014 13:04:32 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington