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1181837

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date	02/03/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Employment: Ethnic Groups
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the report by Carnegie UK Trust Race Inequality in the Workforce, published in February 2020, what assessment they have made of the finding that BAME individuals are more likely to have less stable working lives than their white peers.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL2099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>For BAME individuals in the UK, employment rates are at a near record high at 66.8%, and the unemployment rate is at its lowest level since 1974 at 5.8%. However, we know that employment rates are still lower than for White individuals and that BAME individuals are more likely to have less stable working patterns. The Government is bringing forward the Employment Bill, legislating for a wide range of reforms to employment law that will improve working conditions in the UK, but particularly for the most vulnerable workers.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 16/03/2020 12:50:07 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1181838

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to use any Brexit stockpiles in the event of increased supply chain issues caused by the recent outbreak of COVID-19.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL2100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>Stockpiles of medical supplies built up in advance of European Union exit will be used as part of the Department’s response to the recent outbreak of COVID-19.</p><p>As part of this, the Department has directed NHS Supply Chain to pause ramp-down activity of our centralised stock-build of medical devices and clinical consumables, built up in advance of EU exit. In addition, on 11 February 2020, the Department wrote to all suppliers of medicines and medical products in scope of our EU exit work asking those companies that have retained some or all their EU exit stockpiles to hold on to these stockpiles until further notice, as a precaution.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 16/03/2020 17:32:43 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1181839

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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	Coronavirus: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to (1) ban large scale events, and (2) encourage people to work from home, until Public Health England have identified the individuals who are potentially spreading COVID-19 within the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL2101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government launched its COVID-19 action plan on 3 March.</p><p>The fundamental objectives set out in the action plan are to deploy phased actions to Contain, Delay, and Mitigate any outbreak, using Research to inform policy development. In reference to the delay phase and the planned potential next steps the plan states below:</p><p>“Action that would be considered could include population distancing strategies (such as school closures, encouraging greater home working, reducing the number of large scale gatherings) to slow the spread of the disease throughout the population, whilst ensuring the country’s ability to continue to run as normally as possible. The UK government education department’s planning assumptions include the possibility of having to close educational settings in order to reduce the spread of infection.”</p><p>The COVID-19 action plan is attached.</p><p>The United Kingdom is extremely well prepared for these types of outbreaks, we have central stockpiles of a range of medical products, including face masks, to mitigate supply problems and help ensure the uninterrupted supply to the National Health Service.</p><p>We have well-established procedures to deal with supply problems, regardless of the cause, and work closely with industry, the NHS and others in the supply chain to help prevent shortages and to ensure that the risks to patients are minimised including any potential impact on patient waiting times.</p><p>There have not been any specific discussions with dentists on this matter.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL2102 question first answered 16/03/2020 15:31:50 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Coronavirus_action_plan_-_a_guide_to_what_you_can_expect_across_the_UK.pdf title Coronavirus_action_plan
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1181840

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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	Dental Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with NHS dentists about the possibility of a shortage of facemasks and the impact of any such shortage on patient waiting times.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL2102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government launched its COVID-19 action plan on 3 March.</p><p>The fundamental objectives set out in the action plan are to deploy phased actions to Contain, Delay, and Mitigate any outbreak, using Research to inform policy development. In reference to the delay phase and the planned potential next steps the plan states below:</p><p>“Action that would be considered could include population distancing strategies (such as school closures, encouraging greater home working, reducing the number of large scale gatherings) to slow the spread of the disease throughout the population, whilst ensuring the country’s ability to continue to run as normally as possible. The UK government education department’s planning assumptions include the possibility of having to close educational settings in order to reduce the spread of infection.”</p><p>The COVID-19 action plan is attached.</p><p>The United Kingdom is extremely well prepared for these types of outbreaks, we have central stockpiles of a range of medical products, including face masks, to mitigate supply problems and help ensure the uninterrupted supply to the National Health Service.</p><p>We have well-established procedures to deal with supply problems, regardless of the cause, and work closely with industry, the NHS and others in the supply chain to help prevent shortages and to ensure that the risks to patients are minimised including any potential impact on patient waiting times.</p><p>There have not been any specific discussions with dentists on this matter.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL2101 question first answered 16/03/2020 15:31:50 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Coronavirus_action_plan_-_a_guide_to_what_you_can_expect_across_the_UK.pdf title Coronavirus_action_plan
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1181102

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
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	Hospital Beds
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to increase the number of NHS hospital beds available in England.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2020 answer text <p>The National Health Service operational planning guidance for 2020-21 sets out that systems and organisations will be expected to reduce general and acute bed occupancy levels to a maximum of 92%.</p><p>The operational assumption is that the peak of open bed capacity achieved through the winter of 2019/20 will be at least maintained through 2020/21, including the 3,000 bed increase from October 2019 already planned for.</p><p>Credible plans to release capacity through reductions in length of stay, improvements in delayed transfers of care, and admission avoidance programmes will be required where the increase is not above this level.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 06/03/2020 14:10:33 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1181103

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
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	Coronavirus: Italy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to test all pupils returning to the UK from school trips in northern Italy for Wuhan coronavirus.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2020 answer text <p>The Department and Public Health England has produced guidance available online on GOV.UK that applies to all travellers returning from northern Italy, including school children returning to the United Kingdom from trips. Laboratory testing for COVID-19 is recommended for returning travellers from an at-risk area who develop respiratory symptoms that may be indicative of COVID-19.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 11/03/2020 13:42:46 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1181104

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that the security services are granted access to encrypted messages in exceptional circumstances.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK Government supports strong encryption, which is a vital part of our digital economy, but we have been clear that technology companies should not deliberately design out their ability, and that of law enforcement agencies, to access content, even to prevent and detect the most serious crimes such as child sexual exploitation and abuse and terrorism. As the Director General of MI5, Sir Andrew Parker, made clear last week, lawful access to encrypted communications is a vital part of keeping our citizens safe.</p><p>This is not just about one company. It is about protecting the public across the globe as technology develops. However, as we have made very clear, we are extremely concerned about Facebook’s current proposals to apply end-to-end encryption across their messaging services. The US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) estimates that these proposals would result in the loss of 12 million reports related to child abuse every year. The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) estimates that, in 2018, NCMEC reporting from Facebook will have resulted in more than 2500 arrests by UK law enforcement and almost 3000 children safeguarded in the UK.</p><p>In order to make progress on this issue, we have been consistently clear that industry must be willing to engage in detailed, technical consultation with governments that can have a genuine impact on their design decisions and that is what the Home Secretary called for from Facebook in an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg on 4 October last year.</p><p>We believe that this sort of engagement is necessary in order to identify potential solutions that can keep the public safe, without undermining cyber security or individuals’ privacy. We recently set out our approach to this issue in a testimony to Congress, clearly, factually and in significant detail, dispelling myths that prevent proper debate. We would encourage anyone who is interested in our position to read it in full <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 10/03/2020 17:35:37 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1181105

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
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	Flood Control: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to invest further in flood defences.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government is doubling funding for flood defences to £5.2 billion in this week’s Budget, helping to build 2000 new flood and coastal defence schemes and better protecting 336,000 properties across the country.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 11/03/2020 15:27:54 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1181106

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Insulation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to ensure that all apartment blocks with combustible cladding have such cladding removed; and if so, by when.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>For buildings which require non-ACM remedial works, residents’ safety remains this Government's utmost priority and there is no excuse for building owners not ensuring that residents are safe in their homes. Government will continue to support leaseholders and is reviewing options on how best to do so.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 09/03/2020 17:35:15 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1181107

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Data Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for introducing legislation to permit the legal ownership of personal data.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2020 answer text <p>The word ‘ownership’ usually implies certain rights over a property such as being able to use it, sell it or give it away, but this is unlikely to be a workable concept in the wide range of circumstances that processing of personal data occurs. Data protection legislation in the UK does, however, impose obligations on data controllers to process personal data lawfully and transparently in a way that individuals would expect. It also gives individuals specific rights in relation to their data. These include rights to seek access to, rectify or erase their data or to object to its continued processing.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 11/03/2020 13:41:27 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick