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1651034

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date	06/07/2023
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	Abortion: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 4 July (HL 8691), what measures they have in place to evaluate the effectiveness of abortion providers’ ability to safeguard vulnerable women, who may experience coercion to end a pregnancy, from accessing home-use early medical abortion.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL9113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Safeguarding is an essential aspect of abortion care. The Department has recently strengthened its expectations of providers around safeguarding in the Required Standard Operating Procedures for approved independent sector abortion providers in England (RSOPs).</p><p>The RSOPs include the requirement that all abortion providers have effective arrangements in place to safeguard vulnerable women accessing home-use early medical abortion who may be experiencing coercion to end a pregnancy. Providers must ensure that all staff are trained in recognising the signs of potential abuse and coercion and know how to respond.</p><p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspects against all the Department’s RSOPs when it inspects an independent sector provider, and safeguarding procedures are included in the CQC’s Termination of Pregnancy inspection framework as areas to be considered during an inspection.</p><p>As commissioners of abortion care, NHS England and integrated care boards are responsible for ensuring abortion providers have appropriate staffing levels and that staff are trained to meet safeguarding requirements.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL9114 question first answered 20/07/2023 15:50:13 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1651035

registered interest
date	06/07/2023
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	Abortion: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how they ensure that abortion providers offer appropriate staffing levels and training to safeguard vulnerable women who access home-use early medical abortion and may be subject to coercion to end a pregnancy.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL9114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Safeguarding is an essential aspect of abortion care. The Department has recently strengthened its expectations of providers around safeguarding in the Required Standard Operating Procedures for approved independent sector abortion providers in England (RSOPs).</p><p>The RSOPs include the requirement that all abortion providers have effective arrangements in place to safeguard vulnerable women accessing home-use early medical abortion who may be experiencing coercion to end a pregnancy. Providers must ensure that all staff are trained in recognising the signs of potential abuse and coercion and know how to respond.</p><p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspects against all the Department’s RSOPs when it inspects an independent sector provider, and safeguarding procedures are included in the CQC’s Termination of Pregnancy inspection framework as areas to be considered during an inspection.</p><p>As commissioners of abortion care, NHS England and integrated care boards are responsible for ensuring abortion providers have appropriate staffing levels and that staff are trained to meet safeguarding requirements.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL9113 question first answered 20/07/2023 15:50:14 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1651036

registered interest
date	06/07/2023
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	Abortion: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to update the Department of Health and Social Care’s Required Standard Operating Procedures for approved independent sector abortion providers to collect data on medical complications arising from women accessing home-use early medical abortions, presented across all clinical settings, to measure the efficacy of the present policy on telemedicine.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL9115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/08/2023 answer text <p>The Department’s Required Standard Operating Procedures for the approval of independent sector places for termination of pregnancy in England (RSOPs) were last updated in March 2023. The RSOPs are kept under review and are updated as required, for example due to changes in abortion legislation, or if issues are identified which need to be addressed.</p><p>The RSOPS are also reviewed, in liaison with key stakeholders such as the Care Quality Commission, prior to the renewal of the Secretary of State’s approval of all currently approved independent sector abortion clinics, which happens every 4 years (all clinics are currently approved until 31 July 2026). However, there are presently no plans to update the RSOPs to include expectations around the collection of data on medical complications.</p><p>Known complications resulting from legal abortions in England and Wales are recorded on the HSA4 form up until the patient has been discharged from the abortion service. For medical terminations where either one or both stages of the treatment were administered at the patient’s usual place of residence, complications are less likely to be known by the provider and recorded on the HSA4. Complications are also recorded in other patient record systems such as Hospital Episodes Statistics, where the woman has attended a health service after being discharged.</p><p>To improve the quality of data available on abortion complications, the Department is taking forward a project to improve our understanding of the data.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 24/08/2023 12:50:16 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1651037

registered interest
date	06/07/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Covid-19 Inquiry: Legal Costs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what legal costs they have incurred to date as a result of their decision to seek a judicial review on the application of the Inquiries Act 2005 to the Covid-19 Inquiry.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL9116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>We do not yet have a figure for the costs incurred. We brought this judicial review to seek clarification on a point of law and we are pleased that the Court agreed that there was an important legal question to consider.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>It acknowledged our concerns over respecting the privacy of individuals and ensuring that completely irrelevant information is returned and not retained.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 20/07/2023 15:59:33 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1649513

registered interest
date	03/07/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Planning Permission
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to encourage local planning authorities to expedite determination of planning applications for renewable energy projects seeking to connect to local Distribution Network Operators.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL8990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2023 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) is clear that when determining planning applications for renewable energy projects, local planning authorities should approve the application if its impacts are (or can be made) acceptable. As part of our proposed changes to the planning system, and as committed to in the Net Zero Strategy, we intend to do a fuller review of national planning policy. Our NPPF also encourages pre-application engagement between all parties.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 14/07/2023 11:41:48 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1649514

registered interest
date	03/07/2023
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	Gender Dysphoria: Children and Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Cass Review’s interim report on gender identity services for children and young people, published in February 2022, what plans they have, if any, to require the Gender Identity Development Service, under the auspices of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, to cease operations immediately.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL8991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>There are no plans to cease operations immediately. We have been clear that the GIDS clinic at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust will come to a managed closed by March 2024. This is to manage the complexity of the change whilst ensuring continuity of care for those patients already being seen at the clinic. Since April, the clinic has stopped offering new first appointments to patients on the waiting list. Any patients not discharged by March 2024 will be transferred to new services.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 17/07/2023 16:29:08 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1646542

registered interest
date	21/06/2023
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	Development Aid: Genito-urinary Medicine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park on 1 June (HL7914), whether the partners with whom they collaborate with regard to foreign aid spending on sexual and reproductive health include relevant elected officials in the countries concerned, particularly with regard to any expenditure in relation to abortion.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL8688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>The FCDO collaborates with a range of partners to protect and progress universal, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Where these collaborations are with country governments they will often include elected individuals. Finally, all Overseas Development Assistance spent on increasing access to safe abortion operates within national laws in every country receiving UK funds.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 05/07/2023 15:26:22 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1646543

registered interest
date	21/06/2023
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	Abortion: 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 abortion providers are accountable for verifying that abortion pills sent by post are issued only to women within the legal time limit for such pills.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL8689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2023 answer text <p>The Abortion Act now requires that, in relation to early medical abortion, the doctor terminating a pregnancy must be of the opinion, formed in good faith, that the pregnancy is not beyond 10 weeks. This opinion is formed following a consultation with the woman concerned. If a woman is not sure of her gestation, or if the doctor is concerned about health issues, she will be asked to attend a clinic. This certification must be recorded on form EMA1 or a similar certificate and must be kept for three years from the date on which the medicine for the treatment of the pregnancy is prescribed.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 28/06/2023 11:28:29 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1646544

registered interest
date	21/06/2023
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	Nigeria: Christianity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they are making to the government of Nigeria regarding (1) persecution of, and (2) violence directed at, Christians in (a) Plateau, (b) Kaduna, and (c) Benue, states.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL8690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>Insecurity, driven by a range of factors, is undermining Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) for Nigerian communities of all faiths. Supporting Nigeria to address conflict will remain a focus of the UK-Nigeria Security and Defence Partnership. As part of this partnership, the FCDO has funded peacebuilding initiatives in Nigerian states including Plateau, Kaduna and Benue, targeted at addressing intercommunal conflict. In April 2023, the former High Commissioner discussed the impact of insecurity on Christians with the Governor-Elect of Plateau State; and the UK's Special Envoy for FoRB called on the Nigerian government to bring perpetrators of attacks in Benue to account. We remain committed to supporting Nigeria to address insecurity - last week the British High Commissioner discussed insecurity in his first meeting with new Vice President Kashim Shettima.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 05/07/2023 15:29:01 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1646545

registered interest
date	21/06/2023
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	Abortion: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is their assessment of any dangers for vulnerable women presented by the lack of in-person consultations before dispensing abortion pills by post, and the risk of offences under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 being committed by a third party coercing a pregnancy termination.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL8691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department recognises safeguarding as an essential aspect of abortion care. As stated in the Department’s Required Standard Operating Procedures for approved independent sector abortion providers, we expect all abortion providers to have effective arrangements in place to safeguard vulnerable women accessing home-use early medical abortion who may be experiencing coercion to end a pregnancy. Providers must ensure that all staff are trained in recognising the signs of potential abuse and coercion in adult women and know how to respond. We also require providers to have protocols for onward referral to specialist services where they have reason to suspect someone has experienced abuse.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 04/07/2023 14:21:31 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough