The Department has not deprioritised any European Union exit Statutory Instruments (SIs).<\/p>
<\/p>
Our objective has always been to have a functioning statute book in place by \u2018exit day\u2019 and to ensure that the most critical secondary legislation was made by this point. Each SI was carefully considered on a case-by-case basis, enabling the Department to lay the critical secondary legislation required before we exit the EU.<\/p>
<\/p>
Given the extension to Article 50, the Department will consider whether any further EU exit SIs will need to be brought forward to amend any EU Regulations which have come into force since the original EU Exit SI programme was finalised, to ensure a functioning statute book ahead of a potential \u2018no deal\u2019 exit. The Department will keep this under careful review.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1585", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Stephen Hammond"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Wimbledon"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Stephen Hammond"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-04-16", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "previousAnswerVersion" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1110991/answer/previousversion/114111", "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1585", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Stephen Hammond"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Wimbledon"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Stephen Hammond"} } , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-04-16T14:37:25.547Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-04-10", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care: Brexit"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has deprioritised any Statutory Instruments in relation to the UK leaving the EU; and if he will publish the criteria his Department uses to deprioritise those Instruments.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4076", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Valerie Vaz"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Walsall South"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Valerie Vaz"} ], "uin" : "243433"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1110533", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1110533/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
<\/em><\/p><\/td> Total number of successful applicants from the Occupied Palestinian Territories to the MTI<\/p><\/td><\/tr> April 2017 to March in 2018<\/p><\/td> -<\/em><\/p><\/td><\/tr> April 2018 to December 2018<\/p><\/td> -<\/em><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> Source: Academy of Medical Royal Colleges internal management information<\/p> <\/p> Notes:<\/p> \u201c-\u201c <\/em>indicates a number between one and ten that has been suppressed for confidentiality reasons<\/p> <\/p> The Department has regular discussions with both the National Health Service and higher education institutions on a range of policy initiatives. The ISTP is run by the Royal College of Surgeons, and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has oversight in its role as the organising body behind the MTI, of which the ISTP forms part. As such, any decision allocation of places on the ISTP will necessarily be developed by the institution(s) running the programme in the first instance.<\/p> <\/p> Information on the number of people from the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Gaza that have travelled to the UK to take part in the ISTP since the start of 2018 is not held centrally.<\/p>"}
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