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1755582

registered interest
date	14/01/2025
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	Neurodiversity: Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 13 January (HL3801), where the information sought in the question is held if not centrally.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL4023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2025 answer text <p>This information is held on a local level by the healthcare providers for each respective prison.</p> answering member printed Baroness Merron question first answered 17/01/2025 14:32:46 answering member 347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1755025

registered interest
date	13/01/2025
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: Audit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of NHS providers failed to complete audited financial results in line with the Department of Health and Social Care's reporting timetable in the past financial year.
tabling member printed	Lord Agnew of Oulton
uin	HL3971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2025 answer text <p>The Department set a deadline of 28 June 2024 for the completion of National Health Service provider audits for the year that ended on 31 March 2024. 38 of the 211 NHS providers, representing 18%, did not meet the deadline.</p> answering member printed Baroness Merron question first answered 16/01/2025 13:06:45 answering member 347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron
tabling member	4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton

1755043

registered interest
date	13/01/2025
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	Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what work is being undertaken with the devolved administrations to maintain a central risk management process for antimicrobial resistance.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL3991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2025 answer text <p>The 2024 to 2029 antimicrobial resistance (AMR) national action plan (NAP) is a United Kingdom-wide plan, setting out the challenging commitments and targets for the next five years to confront AMR.</p><p>The NAP programme is made up of eight implementation programmes that are responsible for delivering their implementation plans, which collectively contribute to meeting the commitments within the NAP. Each implementation programme records and manages risks within their own governance structures. Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland each have their own implementation programmes that they manage.</p><p>Risks that are deemed cross-cutting to the NAP are recorded within the programme’s UK-wide risk register, owned by the Department. These cross-cutting risks are monitored and discussed at the two programmes delivery boards, which are responsible for monitoring implementation of the NAP, to determine mitigating actions.</p><p>High-level, challenging programme risks can be escalated up to the UK AMR Strategy Board, members of which include senior officials from across the One Health sector and all four nations of the UK, who are responsible for providing strategic direction for mitigating large scale risks that jeopardise overall programme delivery.</p> answering member printed Baroness Merron question first answered 17/01/2025 14:57:11 answering member 347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

1755053

registered interest
date	13/01/2025
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	Exercise
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to promote physical activity as a means of preventing and managing long-term health conditions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL4001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2025 answer text <p>The Government and the National Health Service recognise the important role of physical activity in the prevention and management of long-term health conditions.</p><p>The NHS Better Health Campaign promotes ways for adults, families, and children to move more, and signposts people, including those living with long term conditions and who are ready to build movement back into routines, to digital support like the NHS Active 10 walking app. Local authorities and the NHS also promote and provide services for people living with long term conditions, such as exercise on referral and social prescribing, including access to physical activity interventions, fall prevention, and walking groups.</p><p>The Department, with Sport England, has delivered support and training to equip healthcare professionals to enable patients to move more, to improve their physical and mental health. Sport England continues to support work in this area through the Physical Activity Clinical Champions programme, which is currently being piloted in local areas.</p><p>NHS England is working closely with partners nationally and locally to explore how the NHS might galvanise support to make physical activity a core part of NHS care, in order to benefit patients, NHS staff, and the wider public.</p><p>By empowering clinicians and healthcare professionals with the skills and confidence to discuss and promote physical activity, through integrating it into key clinical pathways and by aligning it with Core20PLUS5 for adults, children, and young people, the NHS could help to transform patient outcomes and reduce health inequalities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Merron grouped question UIN HL4003 question first answered 17/01/2025 14:48:50 answering member 347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1755055

registered interest
date	13/01/2025
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	Exercise: Social Prescribing
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 healthcare professionals have the skills and confidence to prescribe physical activity as a treatment and management tool for people living with long-term conditions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL4003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2025 answer text <p>The Government and the National Health Service recognise the important role of physical activity in the prevention and management of long-term health conditions.</p><p>The NHS Better Health Campaign promotes ways for adults, families, and children to move more, and signposts people, including those living with long term conditions and who are ready to build movement back into routines, to digital support like the NHS Active 10 walking app. Local authorities and the NHS also promote and provide services for people living with long term conditions, such as exercise on referral and social prescribing, including access to physical activity interventions, fall prevention, and walking groups.</p><p>The Department, with Sport England, has delivered support and training to equip healthcare professionals to enable patients to move more, to improve their physical and mental health. Sport England continues to support work in this area through the Physical Activity Clinical Champions programme, which is currently being piloted in local areas.</p><p>NHS England is working closely with partners nationally and locally to explore how the NHS might galvanise support to make physical activity a core part of NHS care, in order to benefit patients, NHS staff, and the wider public.</p><p>By empowering clinicians and healthcare professionals with the skills and confidence to discuss and promote physical activity, through integrating it into key clinical pathways and by aligning it with Core20PLUS5 for adults, children, and young people, the NHS could help to transform patient outcomes and reduce health inequalities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Merron grouped question UIN HL4001 question first answered 17/01/2025 14:48:50 answering member 347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1755067

registered interest
date	13/01/2025
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	Prostate Cancer
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings in the National Prostate Cancer Audit's State of the Nation Report, published in January, particularly regarding the disparities in health outcomes for black men diagnosed with prostate cancer.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Wyre Forest
uin	HL4015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2025 answer text <p>The Department has not made a specific assessment of the findings in the National Prostate Cancer Audit's State of the Nation Report. However, the Government understands more needs to be done to improve outcomes for all people with prostate cancer, including for black men.</p><p>To address disparities and find ways to better detect prostate cancer, we have invested £16 million in the TRANSFORM trial, aimed at helping to find a way of catching prostate cancer in men, even if they are not displaying any symptoms. This research will ensure that one in ten participants are black men.</p><p>Following publication of the 10-Year Health Plan, we will publish a new National Cancer Plan, which will include further details on how we will improve outcomes for all tumour types, including prostate cancer. We are now in discussions about what form that plan should take, and what its relationship to the 10-Year Health Plan and the Government’s wider Health Mission should be. We will provide updates on this in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Merron question first answered 16/01/2025 14:52:37 answering member 347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1755068

registered interest
date	13/01/2025
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	Prostate Cancer: Ethnic Groups
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the higher rates of advanced prostate cancer diagnoses among black men.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Wyre Forest
uin	HL4016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2025 answer text <p>A £42 million United Kingdom-wide trial, the TRANSFORM trial led by Prostate Cancer UK with £16 million funding from the Government, is under way and aimed at helping find best ways of detecting prostate cancer in men, even if they are not displaying any symptoms and could save thousands of lives.</p><p>This study will also aim to address some of the inequalities that exist in prostate cancer diagnosis by targeting black men in trial recruitment. This is vital as previous trials have not included enough black men to adequately demonstrate the harms and benefits of screening for this group specifically, despite their significantly higher risk.</p> answering member printed Baroness Merron question first answered 17/01/2025 14:57:40 answering member 347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1755071

registered interest
date	13/01/2025
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	Ketamine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking through public health campaigns to warn people of the dangers of ketamine.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL4019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2025 answer text <p>The Department takes the threat of ketamine and other drugs seriously, and is working with partners across Government to respond to existing and new drug threats, and to reduce and prevent the health harms. We are committed to ensuring that anyone with a drug problem can access the help and support they need. We know that drug treatment is protective, and the number of places in treatment for people who use drugs, other than opiates, is being increased by 30,000.</p><p>The Government has a drug information and advice service called Talk to FRANK, which aims to reduce drug misuse and its harms by increasing awareness, particularly for young people and parents. FRANK offers easy to read information on the risks of using ketamine and mixing it with other substances, and basic harm reduction advice.</p><p>The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) has developed a briefing on ketamine for local areas, many of which are already mobilising in response to local need. The OHID also commissions drug education materials to be used by schools in personal, social, health, and economic education.</p> answering member printed Baroness Merron question first answered 17/01/2025 14:58:20 answering member 347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1754167

registered interest
date	09/01/2025
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	Avian Influenza: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to co-ordinate the response to the threat of H5N1 and H5N5 transmission to companion animals, cattle, domestic poultry, wild birds and humans.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL3919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2025 answer text <p>Defra and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) have stood up their well-established outbreak structures to control and eradicate disease, restore normal trade, and assist local communities’ recovery as set out in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/contingency-plan-for-exotic-notifiable-diseases-of-animals-in-england" target="_blank">Contingency plan for exotic notifiable diseases of animals in England</a>, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notifiable-avian-disease-control-strategy-2015" target="_blank">Notifiable Avian Disease Control Strategy for Great Britain</a> and the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mitigation-strategy-for-avian-influenza-in-wild-birds-in-england-and-wales" target="_blank">Mitigation Strategy for Avian Influenza in Wild Birds in England and Wales</a>. This includes working closely to share information and manage incidents with the Department for Health and Social Care, the UK Health Security Agency and the Food Standards Agency.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, international collaboration and knowledge exchange on the threat of avian influenza from across Government is coordinated by Defra and facilitated through discussions between the UK Chief Veterinary Officer and representatives from Defra policy teams and APHA’s avian influenza national and international reference laboratories, and their global counterparts through the World Organisation for Animal Health, the Quadripartite Organisations and allied projects. Including through the the joint World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Scientific Network on animal influenza OFFLU.</p> answering member printed Baroness Hayman of Ullock attachment 1 file name Contingency_Plan_for_Exotic_Notifiable_Diseases.pdf title Contingency Plan 2 file name avian-disease-control-strategy.pdf title Avian disease strategy 3 file name Mitigation_Strategy_for_Avian_Influenza_in_Wild_Birds.pdf title Mitigation Strategy for Avian influenza question first answered 16/01/2025 14:45:21 answering member 4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1754190

registered interest
date	09/01/2025
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	Avian Influenza: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following the report of an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in released pheasants in Worcestershire resulting in mass mortality, what estimate they have made of the number of pheasants and other birds killed; what assessment they have made of the impact of released pheasants on the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza; and what plans they have, if any, to increase disease surveillance of game birds.
tabling member printed	Lord Randall of Uxbridge
uin	HL3942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2025 answer text <p>The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) carries out year-round surveillance for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in dead wild birds, including wild gamebirds, in Great Britain and publishes results on GOV.UK. These can be explored through APHA’s interactive map and dashboard available at GOV.UK</p><p> </p><p>To ensure our approach to disease control reflects any risk these activities pose, APHA has assessed the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/639b2679e90e0721839ea643/Risk_Assessment_on_the_spread_of_High_Pathogenicity_Avian_Influenza__HPAI__H5N1_to_wild_birds_from_released__formerly_captive_gamebirds_in_Great_Britain_Pheasants.pdf" target="_blank">impact gamebird releases have on the likelihood of transmission of avian influenza to wild birds, and between wild birds and kept birds</a>. The need to update this risk assessment in response to new scientific evidence or veterinary advice or significant changes in the epidemiological situation is kept under review as part of the government’s work to monitor and manage the risks of avian influenza.</p> answering member printed Baroness Hayman of Ullock question first answered 16/01/2025 14:47:16 answering member 4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock attachment 1 file name released gamebirds impact assessment.pdf title released gamebird impact assessment
tabling member	209 label Biography information for Lord Randall of Uxbridge