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HANSARDNorthern Ireland: Flight Passengers and Covid-19I am pleased to tell the noble Baroness that, as of 27 April, 1.2 million vaccinations have been administered in Northern Ireland, of which 919,000 were first doses and 356,000…28 Apr 2021HANSARDCare Home Occupancy RateMy Lords, NHS minutes are published as a routine matter, of course. I would be happy to write to the noble Lord with a link to the right minutes.28 Apr 2021HANSARDCare Home Occupancy RateMy Lords, as I mentioned earlier, DHSE has written to local authorities explaining how we recommend some of the unring-fenced £6 billion could be spent to support both those in…28 Apr 2021HANSARDCare Home Occupancy RateMy Lords, occupancy levels are hard to measure precisely. However, data from providers indicate that occupancy rates in care homes for older people have been adversely affected by…28 Apr 2021HANSARDCare Home Occupancy RateMy Lords, I note the intelligence from the Alzheimer’s Society, but I emphasise it is not the responsibility of central government to raise the occupancy rates of care homes. This…28 Apr 2021HANSARDCare Home Occupancy RateThe noble Baroness makes a perfectly fair point. Moving into a care home is a difficult and potentially stressful experience. Moving in at a time of Covid, when, as the noble…28 Apr 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland: Flight Passengers and Covid-19I reassure the noble Baroness that the data flows between borders, Test and Trace, NHS and JBC work extremely well. I was in the Covid Gold meeting earlier today and we had…28 Apr 2021HANSARDCare Home Occupancy RateMy Lords, I absolutely join my noble friend in commending the incredible contribution of care home staff, domiciliary staff, unpaid care workers and all those who support loved…28 Apr 2021HANSARDCare Home Occupancy RateThe noble Baroness makes a good point. There is always a tension in having enough beds in care so that those who need somewhere to be supported are not sent to hospital, thereby…28 Apr 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland: Flight Passengers and Covid-19My Lords, I recognise the challenge to which the noble Lord refers. It is, of course, a fact that coronavirus restrictions in Northern Ireland are determined by the Northern…28 Apr 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland: Flight Passengers and Covid-19My Lords, I am enormously grateful to the Irish Government for the very large amount of informal clinical data-sharing that goes on. CMOs of both countries exchange data on such…28 Apr 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland: Flight Passengers and Covid-19My Lords, I reassure the noble Lord that the issue is caused by no lack of friendship or spirit of collaboration between the two Administrations. The CAA and all the relevant…28 Apr 2021HANSARDCare Home Occupancy RateMy Lords, I have heard the noble Baroness and others express their concerns about the sector, but I reassure noble Lords that it is not in overall long-term decline. In fact, the…28 Apr 2021HANSARDCare Home Occupancy RateMy Lords, we have written to local authorities to make it clear what the funding is there for and to make recommendations on the sort of financial support that may be needed to…28 Apr 2021HANSARDCare Home Occupancy RateMy Lords, there is an important area of support for those who decide to have care at home. During the pandemic, we did an enormous amount to ensure that there were infection-safe…28 Apr 2021HANSARDFolic AcidNo.26 Apr 2021HANSARDFolic AcidThe noble Baroness puts the statistics persuasively. The numbers I have are slightly different, but her gist is right. I hope to return after purdah to revisit this important…26 Apr 2021HANSARDFolic AcidI reassure the noble Lord and others who have pressed this point that it is a departmental priority. There has of course been a pandemic and that has slowed things down. I cannot…26 Apr 2021HANSARDFolic AcidI hear the frustration loud and clear and reassure the noble Baroness that we are working on this at pace.26 Apr 2021HANSARDFolic AcidMy Lords, I would be glad to take the noble Lord’s recommendation back to the department; he puts it extremely persuasively. As I said, we have looked at the substantial point…26 Apr 2021