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HANSARDCare Homes: Insurance IndemnityMy Lords, I do not have the precise number at my fingertips, but I can reassure the noble Lord that the proportion that has gone under in the last year is not dramatically higher…19 May 2021HANSARDCare Homes: Insurance IndemnityMy Lords, the financial stability of the care home sector is, as the noble Baroness rightly pointed out, something that we monitor extremely closely. There will, of course, always…19 May 2021HANSARDCare Homes: Insurance IndemnityMy Lords, I do not need to remind the noble Baroness that there are profound inconsistencies between the NHS and social care. They are organised completely differently, and the…19 May 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I pay tribute to the bus industry. Many noble Lords will remember those terrible stories at the beginning of the pandemic about bus drivers having an extremely high…18 May 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I am extremely grateful to my noble friend for her insight. She is entirely right; this awful pandemic does have a silver lining, which is that it can be an inflection…18 May 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, the outbreak in Bolton, Bedford, London and elsewhere has demonstrated, if that were needed, the paramount importance of keeping resources for test and trace at a…18 May 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am grateful for the briefing on Nepal I had earlier from my noble friend. The scenes that we have seen in north-west India are heart-breaking. Nepal is such a good example of…18 May 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I am a big supporter of the “fast and hard” principle. In our response in Bolton, Bedford, London and elsewhere, we have demonstrated that principle in our handling of…18 May 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am enormously grateful to the noble Baroness for that creative and thoughtful question. The good news is that the number of absconding residents from managed quarantine is…18 May 2021HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Steps and Local Authority Enforcement Powers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021That the Regulations laid before the House on 9 April be approved. Relevant documents: 52nd Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, Session 2019 - 21 , and 48th…18 May 2021HANSARDOsimertinib Cancer TreatmentI note the point made by the noble Baroness. As I mentioned in relation to the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Jolly, on this issue, it is not one that I am not aware of,…18 May 2021HANSARDOsimertinib Cancer TreatmentMy Lords, I am not aware of a Strepsil shortage in Northern Ireland but I would be glad to write to the noble Baroness if I have any information.18 May 2021HANSARDOsimertinib Cancer TreatmentMy Lords, we are watchful of the concerns to which the noble Lord refers but it is our hope and aspiration that there will not be the kind of delays or trouble that he explained.…18 May 2021HANSARDOsimertinib Cancer TreatmentMy noble friend is, as ever, all over the detail. It is my understanding that the gap is a matter of weeks rather than there being any clinical divergence in assessment of the…18 May 2021HANSARDOsimertinib Cancer TreatmentMy Lords, there will be an occasional moment when there are slight differences between the EMA and MHRA; we are not anticipating them to be huge and, in this case, we are…18 May 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I have to be honest with the noble Baroness: I am not sure it is helpful to try to connect healthcare policy decisions with a commentary on hate crime. The people who…18 May 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I pay tribute to the vice-chancellors and to the universities and colleges of Britain for the way in which they have embraced campus testing. It has been a salutary…18 May 2021HANSARDOsimertinib Cancer TreatmentMy Lords, I have met with industry on this matter for the past 18 months. I am afraid that the message I get from it is not of the alarmist kind that the noble Lord…18 May 2021HANSARDOsimertinib Cancer TreatmentMy Lords, I do not agree with either the basis or detail of the noble Lord’s assertion. There is absolutely no delay or problem of access for this drug. He is entirely right to…18 May 2021HANSARDOsimertinib Cancer TreatmentMy Lords, the innovative lung cancer drug Tagrisso has recently had its licence expanded to include patients with early-stage lung cancer through Project Orbis. I am pleased to…18 May 2021