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HANSARDCovid-19: Mental HealthThe noble Lord is entirely right that the burden on women during an epidemic such as Covid is probably more profound in some instances than on men. Women carry a huge amount of…16 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Mental HealthMy Lords, the investment we are making in mental health is profound. Our commitment is to £2.3 billion of extra funding by 2023-24. This is the sort of money necessary to provide…16 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Mental HealthMy noble friend is entirely right that the fears described as mental health issues are about not only Covid itself but the economic and social consequences. The impact on mental…16 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Mental HealthMy Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, raises an important point on the mental health of young people. A primary concern is the effect that the epidemic has on young people,…16 Jun 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020That the Regulations laid before the House on 13 May be approved. Relevant document: 15th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee15 Jun 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020My Lords, the amending regulations we are discussing were made by the Secretary of State on 13 May. These remain an exceptional and necessary package of measures brought forward…15 Jun 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020I want to say a profound thank you to noble Lords because this has been an interesting and wide-ranging debate on these important statutory instruments. Despite the unusual…15 Jun 2020HANSARDContact Tracing: Personal PrivacyMy Lords, I can confirm that the Government have been following the code of conduct, as the noble Lord suggested. I am also hungry to publish the performance data. I can confirm…11 Jun 2020HANSARDContact Tracing: Personal PrivacyMy Lords, we are currently assessing the value of a specific Isle of Wight update and whether it would be worthwhile before we move on to issuing the full app. When we have…11 Jun 2020HANSARDContact Tracing: Personal PrivacyMy Lords, we have agreed up front to an enormous amount of transparency. We have open source for the code, we have published the data protection impact assessment and the privacy…11 Jun 2020HANSARDContact Tracing: Personal PrivacyThe noble Lord makes an important point about Ireland. We have regular conversations with the Irish Government about the app that they are working on. It is our aspiration that…11 Jun 2020HANSARDContact Tracing: Personal PrivacyMy Lords, we have prioritised privacy and security in all stages of the app’s development, working in partnership with experts across government and industry, including the…11 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: MasksMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, for raising this important issue. I pay tribute to his passion and perseverance on the issue of masks. I thank all noble…11 Jun 2020HANSARDContact Tracing: Personal PrivacyMy Lords, the evidence before me suggests that the British public have an enormous amount of support for the app. Recent research by Johnson and Lubbock partners for ITV showed…11 Jun 2020HANSARDContact Tracing: Personal PrivacyMy Lords, the greatest insight from the Isle of Wight experiment was that human contact tracing needed to be the first stage of our rollout of the test and trace programme and…11 Jun 2020HANSARDContact Tracing: Personal PrivacyMy Lords, the data that an individual puts on the app is entirely voluntary. No data is held for more than 28 days until somebody takes a test. Once that test has taken place, the…11 Jun 2020HANSARDContact Tracing: Personal PrivacyMy Lords, the test and trace programme will publish data later today; the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, will do the No. 10 presentation. In that presentation, I hope that noble…11 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Cancelled Medical OperationsMy Lords, the impact on the over-75s is, as has been described, profound. We have worked hard to try to protect those who are shielding. The reopening of GPs’ surgeries is a…10 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Cancelled Medical OperationsThe noble Baroness is entirely right to focus on those who are the most vulnerable. Data for March 2020 shows that cancer referrals began to drop although treatment levels did…10 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Cancelled Medical OperationsThe noble Baroness is right to raise this concern. The bigger focus is less on the operational restraints, because the NHS has in fact done extremely well to keep the flow of…10 Jun 2020