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HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]That the Bill be considered on Report in the following order: Clauses 1 to 3, Schedule 1, Clauses 4 to 23, Schedule 2, Clauses 24 to 39, Schedule 3, Clause 40 to 56, Title.17 Mar 2025HANSARDApricity Fertility ClosureIn my discussions, I will consider the publication Modernising Fertility Law , which, as I said, the HFEA put forward in November 2023. In it there are a number of recommendations…12 Mar 2025HANSARDFood and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 29 January be approved. Relevant document: 17th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (special attention…12 Mar 2025HANSARDApricity Fertility ClosureI agree with the noble Baroness’s observations. The legislation goes back to 1990. We are in 2025, and there has been an advent of many new technologies, techniques and business…12 Mar 2025HANSARDApricity Fertility ClosureWomen’s health hubs—which are a huge success and we continue to support and promote them, without any shadow of a doubt—do not deal with fertility treatment in the way this…12 Mar 2025HANSARDApricity Fertility ClosureMy noble friend raises an extremely important point, which I will of course cover in my meeting tomorrow. It may be of interest to know that the Advertising Standards Authority…12 Mar 2025HANSARDApricity Fertility ClosureAs the noble Baroness will be aware, in November 2023 the HFEA published M odernising Fertility L aw , in which it made a number of recommendations for urgent change, including…12 Mar 2025HANSARDApricity Fertility ClosureMy Lords, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority advised the department about the closure of Apricity in December. Apricity did not fall under the HFEA’s regulatory…12 Mar 2025HANSARDApricity Fertility ClosureThe noble Baroness and other noble Lords are quite right in what they are reporting on the change. Fertility treatment is now overwhelmingly obtained through private means. It is…12 Mar 2025HANSARDAutism and Learning Disabilities: Hospital DetentionI am very grateful to the committee for its work and I am certainly looking forward to its report. The Government will respond to that report within two months. It is indeed vital…11 Mar 2025HANSARDAutism and Learning Disabilities: Hospital DetentionI am grateful to the noble Baroness for tempting me to agree with her comments about a mental health commissioner. We have debated that, and the noble Baroness is aware that we do…11 Mar 2025HANSARDAutism and Learning Disabilities: Hospital DetentionMy Lords, this Question refers to a very sad and concerning story. This Government want more people with a learning disability and autistic people to be supported in the…11 Mar 2025HANSARDAutism and Learning Disabilities: Hospital DetentionRegrettably, that person’s experience is not a lone example. That is why, for example, the Mental Health Bill will limit the scope to detain people with a learning disability and…11 Mar 2025HANSARDAutism and Learning Disabilities: Hospital DetentionThis matter is one of concern on all sides and yes, indeed, we continually have those discussions, because this is not just something for the NHS and social care—the third sector…11 Mar 2025HANSARDAutism and Learning Disabilities: Hospital DetentionThe noble Baroness is quite right to raise the fact that at the end of January 2025 there were some 2,065 people with a learning disability, autism, or both, in mental health…11 Mar 2025HANSARDAutism and Learning Disabilities: Hospital DetentionYes, because we are, as my noble friend knows, updating an Act that is over 40 years old, to keep pace with demands and changes, and to meet our expectations of providing care…11 Mar 2025HANSARDAutism and Learning Disabilities: Hospital DetentionI am most grateful to the noble Baroness for her contribution and expertise in this area, which I know we all look to in your Lordships’ House, as well as outside it. The points…11 Mar 2025HANSARDFood and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025That the Grand Committee do consider the Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025. Relevant document:…10 Mar 2025HANSARDFood and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025I understand that. It is why these reforms build on existing powers, whereby the FSA and FSS can request information for the review. It is of course in the interests of businesses…10 Mar 2025HANSARDFood and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025I understand the point the noble Baroness is making. I will turn to the point about the availability of information, which was also the point that the noble Baroness, Lady…10 Mar 2025