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HANSARDHealth: DementiaMy Lords, guidance to help enhance best practice in dementia assessment and diagnosis was recently updated and published to support a personalised approach and choice in the…05 Jul 2021HANSARDCoronavirus Act 2020 (Early Expiry) Regulations 2021My Lords, I am enormously grateful to noble Lords for their thoughtful and perceptive comments. I will try to answer some of the points made in this important debate directly. The…05 Jul 2021HANSARDHealth: DementiaMy Lords, I pay tribute to the role of carers in the kinds of situations the noble Baroness describes. We are doing an enormous amount to supply training for carers in all facets…05 Jul 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Wuhan Institute of VirologyMy Lords, I entirely agree with the sentiments expressed by my noble friend. We are absolutely calling for a timely, transparent and evidence-based phase 2 study, including…30 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Wuhan Institute of VirologyMy Lords, I pay tribute to the Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, who is leading the pandemic preparedness work. He is doing an enormous amount both on the…30 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Wuhan Institute of VirologyMy Lords, with the greatest of respect to the noble Lord, I am not sure whether the pandemic that just hit us could have been solved by a committee, however august and impressive.…30 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Wuhan Institute of VirologyMy Lords, I attended the presentation by Sir Patrick Vallance at the G7 health track in Oxford in June, which was received extremely well, both by Health Ministers from the G7…30 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Wuhan Institute of VirologyMy Lords, with the increasing threat of zoonotic diseases crossing the animal-human divide, learning how Covid was transmitted to humans and is spread is absolutely crucial to…30 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Wuhan Institute of VirologyMy Lords, I agree with the noble Lord’s appeal for more data—but, candidly, as I know he knows, it is not just quantity of data that we need; it is the right data. Where we are…30 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Wuhan Institute of VirologyMy Lords, I have written to the commissioner for standards in response to that precise question and I should be glad to share that correspondence with the noble Lord.30 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Wuhan Institute of VirologyMy Lords, specific official engagement with the investigation is done through PHE, and we have a PHE official sitting on the investigation. That is the right way of conducting a…30 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Wuhan Institute of VirologyI entirely agree with the noble Baroness. It is extremely frustrating that we do not know the steps of evolution that this virus went through. It has come to us completely out of…30 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Wuhan Institute of VirologyI completely agree with my noble friend. The international health regulations need to be amended in that respect. It was one of the aspects of the pandemic preparedness treaty…30 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, the noble Lord’s testimony is very moving and I have no doubt that the red-list system has put a lot of pressure on a lot of families. I personally sign off on these…29 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to address both points. On singing, I have heard loud and clear the points made by many noble Lords, particularly my noble friend Lord…29 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, the question of prioritisation is one for the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. In terms of operational delivery, we have moved to a moment of opening up…29 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, SIREN is one of the most thought-provoking and interesting of all the many studies that we have done. It is a sad fact that we do not understand many of the aspects of…29 Jun 2021HANSARDSocial Care ReformMy Lords, the commitment to publishing a review of social care is absolutely heartfelt. We have delivered on Brexit and the vaccines, and we will deliver on social care. The Prime…29 Jun 2021HANSARDHospital Waiting ListsI completely take on board the noble Baroness’s advice. When it comes to recruitment, it is right that local engagement with local education has to be the way forward. I can…29 Jun 2021HANSARDHospital Waiting ListsThe noble Baroness points very well to exactly the kind of challenge that we face at the moment. She is entirely right that conditions such as arthritis and rheumatology require…29 Jun 2021