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date	27/06/2023
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	Health: International Cooperation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how, if at all, they are promoting the 'One Health' approach in multilateral policy processes, such as through the World Health Organisation's proposed Pandemic Preparedness Treaty.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL8806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2023 answer text <p>The UK Government promotes a One Health approach through its engagement with international fora such as the G7, G20, UN General Assembly and the Quadripartite organisations governing bodies. The importance of a One Health approach is highlighted in the UK's International Development Strategy, Global Health Framework and the 2023 Biological Security Strategy. The Government's priorities for a new international instrument to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPR), currently being drafted and negotiated by member states of the World Health Organisation, including the UK, include embedding a One Health approach to PPR.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/07/2023 15:19:11 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1648322

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
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: Developing Countries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how they are supporting lower and middle income countries with weak animal health systems to combat avian influenza effectively.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL8807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>The UK continues to play a leading role in this critical area as part of our wider work to tackle zoonotic diseases, which are responsible for around 60% of all human diseases and 75% of all new and emerging infectious diseases.</p><p> </p><p>Our world-class laboratories provide capability-building services to global partners including lower and middle income countries, integrating technical support, surveillance, risk analysis and epidemiology expertise, and participating in numerous global research and development networks which offer a multi-disciplinary approach for early detection systems and emergency preparedness and response coordination, with a focus on animal and zoonotic diseases, including avian influenza.</p><p> </p><p>We also support country and regional partners through our Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget to strengthen global health systems, so they are better able to prepare for, prevent, detect and respond to a wide range of health threats, including zoonotic diseases like avian influenza. This includes our Animal Health Systems Strengthening Project, International Health Regulations Strengthening Project and Tackling Deadly Disease in Africa Programme, all of which take a One Health approach, emphasising the connections between human, animal, plant and environmental health.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we are providing ODA funding to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations to build avian influenza prevention, preparedness and response capacity in West Africa. Furthermore, we are funding The One Health Poultry Hub, a multistakeholder development research partnership working in Southeast Asia to support safer poultry systems. We are also strengthening genomic surveillance capability through the New Variant Assessment Platform, which will help countries to deal more effectively with pathogens of pandemic potential, including avian influenza.</p><p> </p><p>All UK Aid spend is published by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in the form of Statistics on International Development and is available at GOV.UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 03/07/2023 16:12:47 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1648323

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
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	Urinary Tract Infections
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have plans for trials across England of antibiotic cessation for those receiving prophylactic antibiotics for recurrent urinary tracts infection, as pioneered in Wales.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL8808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>NHS England has supported two integrated care boards (ICBs) in the East of England to pilot local schemes to incentivise primary care networks to identify patients prescribed prophylactic antibiotics and invite those patients for a clinical review. Prescribing data will be used to monitor the impact of these pilot schemes and, if safe and effective, underpin a national roll out of this approach.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 05/07/2023 16:20:58 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1646821

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date	22/06/2023
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	Owner Occupation: Rents
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps, if any, they are taking to assist part-owners of homes who may be unable to sell as a result of conditions of rent charges allowing repossession; and what estimate they have made of the numbers of homeowners affected.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL8711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2023 answer text <p>We want to make estate management companies more accountable to their freeholders for how their money is spent.</p><p>When Parliamentary time allows, the Government intends to legislate to ensure that freehold homeowners who pay estate rent charges have the right to challenge their reasonableness and to go to the tribunal to appoint a manager to manage the provision of services.</p><p>In addition, we will remove the statutory right for owners of rent charges to take possession or grant a lease of the property in the event of non-payment by the homeowner.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 29/06/2023 11:46:12 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle