Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 20 Oct 2020
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2020
"My Lords, first, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, on her maiden speech.
Clearly, we are at a critical point in the spread of the pandemic. The public will accept tighter restrictions on what they can do, but they need to have confidence that the decisions being …..."Lord Shipley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 12 Oct 2020
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North East of England) Regulations 2020
"My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the north-east regulations. I fully understand that this is a very complex and fast-changing situation, and I hope that the Minister will take my suggestions as a constructive response to current circumstances. However, the House should be discussing these …..."Lord Shipley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 28 Sep 2020
Coronavirus Act 2020: Temporary Provisions
"My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Clark, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Clarke, on their excellent maiden speeches.
As the Minister said in his letter last week, many of the powers used by Her Majesty’s Government relate to the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act …..."Lord Shipley - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 29th July 2020
Asked by:
Lord Shipley (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what they currently estimate the percentage of (1) false negative, and (2) false positive, tests for COVID-19 to be.
Answered by Lord Bethell
To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet Testing – note for House of Lords which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library
Written Question
Wednesday 29th July 2020
Asked by:
Lord Shipley (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many tests for COVID-19 have been completed per 100,000 people in each local authority area in England to date.
Answered by Lord Bethell
To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet Testing – note for House of Lords which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library.
Written Question
Tuesday 7th July 2020
Asked by:
Lord Shipley (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the data published by the Office for National Statistics which demonstrates that 19 local authorities in England have recorded excess death rates in 2020 that are more than twice the UK average excess death rates.
Answered by Lord Bethell
We have made no such assessment but we are learning as much as we can, as quickly as we can about this virus, who it affects and how best to keep everyone safe and protect those who may be more vulnerable than others.
We asked Public Health England (PHE) to undertake a rapid review into disparities in deaths from COVID-19 and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities (Kemi Badenoch MP) has been tasked with leading the work arising from PHE’s report published on 2 June. The Terms of Reference for that work were published on 4 June.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 23 Apr 2020
Covid-19: Social Care Services
"My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Wheeler, for enabling us to hold this debate. I will concentrate on: emergency planning and procurement; the overall impact of government policies on the social care sector, which Age UK said last week was “an unfolding disaster”; and the lack of integration …..."Lord Shipley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 09 Jan 2020
Queen’s Speech
"My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, made some very trenchant points, for which we should thank him.
The gracious Speech contained little to remedy the deep-seated problems affecting the delivery of public services, most of which relate to a lack of money. The Prime Minister’s stated aim is to …..."Lord Shipley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 15 Oct 2018
Grenfell Tower: Toxins
"My Lords, the Minister indicated that we should wait for the formal publication of Professor Stec’s report. However, she has briefed officials in a variety of agencies about the dangers that she thinks are apparent. Given that toxins have been found up to a mile away from the Grenfell Tower …..."Lord Shipley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 19 Oct 2017
National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2017
"My Lords, I should like to ask the Minister to clarify four issues. First, does he agree that community pharmacies are for many people the most accessible healthcare location, particularly where there are no GP surgeries locally; that community pharmacies in those situations can take pressure off GPs, and that …..."Lord Shipley - View Speech
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