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1651482

registered interest
date	10/07/2023
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	Developing Countries: Veterinary Medicine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether, and if so to what extent, they provide direct financial support for the development of veterinary clinical skill laboratories in low- and middle-income countries to strengthen animal health systems.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL9195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2023 answer text <p>While we do not provide direct financial support for the development of veterinary clinical skill laboratories in low- and middle-income countries, we proactively support country and regional partners with Official Development Assistance funding to strengthen health systems, including through our £5m Animal Health Systems Strengthening Project, which is providing technical assistance and other capability-building to veterinary services in Africa.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, and to ensure the UK effectively drives better and sustainable health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, our world-class laboratories are actively involved in delivering global health outreach programmes, including laboratory twinning projects to build diagnostic capability for the surveillance and detection of animal diseases.</p><p> </p><p>We have also developed and delivered e-learning modules for over 200 veterinary professionals and paraprofessionals working in low- and middle-income countries to build skills in laboratory diagnostics, surveillance strategies, pandemic preparedness training, epidemiology, and veterinary medicine residue surveillance.</p><p> </p><p>All UK Aid spend is published by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office as Statistics on International Development, and is available at GOV.UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 13/07/2023 16:31:58 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1651024

registered interest
date	06/07/2023
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Statutory Instruments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish the statutory post implementation reviews of (1) the African Horse Sickness (England) Regulations 2012, (2) the Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (England and Scotland) Regulations 2015, (3) the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013, (4) the Sea Fishing (Points for Masters of Fishing Boats) Regulations 2014, and (5) the Alien and Locally Absent Species in Aquaculture (England and Wales) Regulations 2011.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL9096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2023 answer text <p>Defra expects to publish the below PIRs as follows:</p><p> </p><p>(1) The African Horse Sickness (England) Regulations 2012 - July 2023</p><p>(2) The Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (England and Scotland) Regulations 2015 - Autumn 2023</p><p>(3) The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013 - August 2023</p><p>(4) The Sea Fishing (Points for Masters of Fishing Boats) Regulations 2014 - September 2023</p><p>(5) The Alien and Locally Absent Species in Aquaculture (England and Wales) Regulations 2011 - July 2023</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 13/07/2023 14:20:23 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1648704

registered interest
date	28/06/2023
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	Zoonoses
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 finding of Min Cui, Bang Shen and others in their article ‘Animal diseases and human future’, published in Animal Diseases in April 2022, that 75 per cent of emerging human infectious diseases originate from animals.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL8865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2023 answer text <p>UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is aware of the paper Animal diseases and human future by Min Cui, Bang Shen et al published in Animal Diseases, April 2022. The paper asserts that “approximately 60% of human infectious diseases are zoonotic, and 75% of emerging human infectious diseases originate from animals”. While there is not one internationally agreed figure for the percentages of diseases, emerging or established, that are zoonotic, these figures are broadly in line with that of global public health partners such as World Organisation for Animal Health.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 10/07/2023 14:28:26 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1648321

registered interest
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

1648324

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	Antibiotics: Water
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to research and promote increased water consumption by care home patients to reduce (1) prophylactic antibiotic use, and (2) downstream effects on drug-resistant infections.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL8809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>NHS England is funding a series of hydration pilots, to test out which hydration related interventions are most likely to increase fluid intake and whether this in turn reduces the risk of developing a urinary tract infection (UTI) in the older adult population living in care homes. These pilots are intended to reduce the incidence of urinary tract and blood stream infections, antibiotic prescribing and use, and antimicrobial resistance.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 04/07/2023 13:49:54 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1646820

registered interest
date	22/06/2023
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	Bracken: Asulam
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 (1) ecological, and (2) human health, impacts of continuing to allow emergency use of asulam to control growth of bracken after such use was denied in Wales and Scotland; and whether they have a (a) plan, or (b) timescale, for ending such authorisations.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL8710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2023 answer text <p>Decisions on the regulation of pesticides are devolved. The decision to grant an emergency authorisation for the limited and controlled use of Asuloxin in England in 2023 was taken after careful consideration of the potential impacts on human and animal health and the environment. To minimise risks to human health and the environment, strict conditions have been applied to its use. These include, but are not limited to, the use of protective equipment for those applying the pesticide, unsprayed buffer zones to protect non-target terrestrial plants and aquatic organisms, and restrictions on when and where the herbicide can be sprayed to protect mammals and nesting birds.</p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p>All applications for emergency authorisation are considered on their individual merits, However, emergency authorisation is not a permanent solution. The Bracken Control Group, as the Applicant for emergency authorisation, has carried out work on alternatives and the owners of Asulox are working towards standard authorisation of the product. The Minister for Food, Mark Spencer, plans to meet the company in the near future to assess progress towards a long-term solution.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 28/06/2023 12:47:04 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1646821

registered interest
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

1644866

registered interest
date	14/06/2023
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	Health Services: Asylum
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are giving GPs different advice about the provision of treatments and services to asylum-seekers as compared to provision for the general population.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL8469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>Anyone in England can register and consult with a general practitioner without charge, including people seeking asylum. Asylum seekers are particularly vulnerable to potential health needs because of their experiences either before, during or after migration. Additional services may be locally commissioned by the National Health Service, including from general practice, to identify and manage such health needs. Information for healthcare professionals on meeting the health needs of migrants is available in the Migrant Health Guide, which is produced by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 27/06/2023 11:36:28 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle