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Division Vote (Lords)
11 Mar 2024 - Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill - View Vote Context
Baroness Cumberlege (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 178 Conservative No votes vs 2 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 199 Noes - 199
Division Vote (Lords)
11 Mar 2024 - Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill - View Vote Context
Baroness Cumberlege (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 180 Conservative No votes vs 5 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 217 Noes - 192
Division Vote (Lords)
4 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Baroness Cumberlege (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 162 Conservative No votes vs 5 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 282 Noes - 180
Division Vote (Lords)
6 Feb 2024 - Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Baroness Cumberlege (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 184 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 200 Noes - 204
Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Maternity Services

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Division Vote (Lords)
23 Jan 2024 - Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Baroness Cumberlege (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 185 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 201 Noes - 227
Division Vote (Lords)
6 Dec 2023 - Code of Practice on Reasonable Steps to be taken by a Trade Union (Minimum Service Levels) - View Vote Context
Baroness Cumberlege (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 179 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 196 Noes - 192
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Sexually Transmitted Infections

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 09 Nov 2023
King’s Speech

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Written Question
Ultrasonics
Wednesday 25th October 2023

Asked by: Baroness Cumberlege (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to protect patients from (1) unregulated, and (2) unqualified, non-medical ultrasound practitioners.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Government is clear that the regulatory oversight of health and care professions must be proportionate to the risks to the public. Statutory regulation of healthcare professionals should only be used where the risks to patient protection cannot be addressed through employer oversight, system regulation, or accredited voluntary registration.

Services offering diagnostic and screening procedures that use ultrasound to examine the body must register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Providers must demonstrate that they provide enough suitably qualified, competent, skilled, and experienced staff to meet the needs of the people using the service to comply with the CQC’s regulatory requirements to operate.

Some sonographers are qualified and registered to practice in another healthcare profession that is subject to statutory regulation. The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care manages the Accredited Registers Programme which independently assesses organisations who operate voluntary registers for practitioners who are not regulated by law. Sonographers can register with the accredited Register of Clinical Technologists.

The Government keeps the healthcare professions subject to statutory regulation under review and recently ran a consultation seeking views on the criteria used to decide when regulation is necessary, and whether there are any unregulated professions that should be brought into statutory regulation. The Government will publish its response to the consultation in due course.