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HANSARDNHS: Hospital Waiting TimesIt is NHS England’s responsibility to record those figures. The noble Lord is right to highlight that health disparities happen and affect the most deprived sections of our…23 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS: Hospital Waiting TimesMy noble friend raises a specific issue I am not aware of. If she wants to write to me with the details, we will look into that. As I said in a previous answer, the Government…23 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS: Hospital Waiting TimesThe noble Lord makes an important point. Excess deaths from all causes involving cardiovascular disease have reduced year on year since 2020 to December 2023. Relative excess…23 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS: Hospital Waiting TimesThe noble Lord raises a good point, as always. It is not always the number of people on waiting list, it is the amount of time they spend on it. As I said in a previous answer,…23 Jan 2024HANSARDNHS: Hospital Waiting TimesThe noble Lord raises the point about consultant doctors. They work within the NHS but they also have private practices. That has happened for many years since the NHS was…23 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesFrom 1 January 2023 to 30 November 2023 there were 209 laboratory-confirmed measles cases in England. Over three-quarters of those cases are from the West Midlands, predominantly…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesMy Lords, the vaccination rate in the West Midlands is below the national average but not as low as in London. In London it is 75% and in the West Midlands it is 80%, so it not…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesI am grateful to my noble friend for his helpful suggestions. I do not have an answer to his question here and now but I will certainly feed it back to the department.22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesI wholeheartedly agree; the noble Baroness raises a very important point. It is a decision for parents to make about their child. However, when that child goes to school, it is…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesThe noble Baroness asked a very important question about PPE. I am not aware of any issues in GP practices when GPs are meeting patients from their communities to discuss…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesThe noble Lord raises a very good point. There are modern communications tools, such as TikTok, which young people use. Given the collective memory of this dreadful disease that…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesI do not accept the premise of the noble Lord’s question. The Government are committed to tackling vaccine misinformation. This includes ongoing monitoring of vaccine uptake and…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesThe noble Lord asks a very good question. That is how Germany and France deal with their children; this is Britain. I will take the noble Lord’s suggestion to the department and…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesI am grateful to my noble friend for that question. He is right that I cannot answer his specific point on the make-up of the vaccine, but I will write to him and place a copy in…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesMy Lords, the UK Health Security Agency declared a national incident on 8 January 2024. The government health system is taking control of the disease’s spread. Our aim is to…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesThe noble Lord raises a very good point; about 25 years ago there were rumours and misinformation about the MMR vaccine, so there is a cohort of those in the younger…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesThe situation varies across the country. What is clear in the more deprived sections of certain communities is that such communications are not what they could and should be. The…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesThe right reverend Prelate is right to bring up this subject. Pop-up clinics are a quick and easy way to serve hard-to-reach communities. He mentioned mosques, where the…22 Jan 2024HANSARDMeasles CasesI am very happy to meet my noble friend’s community leaders. It is very concerning that certain segments of our communities feel uncertainty and doubt about these very safe…22 Jan 2024HANSARDArrangement of BusinessMy Lords, for those noble Lords who were not at Question Time, I should say that the noble Lords, Lord Kennedy and Lord True, reminded the House of the time limits in speeches, so…18 Jan 2024