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HANSARDImmunisation: ChildrenIt has to make sense to take more measures that are easy for people, including maybe less skilled people, to operate. Funnily enough, I was talking just today to the head of…08 May 2024HANSARDInternational Health Regulations: AmendmentsAgain, my noble friend will agree with me that our ability to assess the vaccine more quickly than any other country and roll it out very quickly was a key asset for the UK.…07 May 2024HANSARDInternational Health Regulations: AmendmentsI am not sure in what year that policy was published. However, I can talk about how, when we were president of the G7 in 2021, we led the calls to donate vaccines on a worldwide…07 May 2024HANSARDInternational Health Regulations: AmendmentsWe are talking about two very different things here. One is ensuring that, as a country, we are armed with the information as quickly as possible so that we can act; getting the…07 May 2024HANSARDInternational Health Regulations: AmendmentsI do agree: I do not think that it would help to postpone it. I had this exact conversation with the American Health Secretary, who is very aware that we are getting nearer and…07 May 2024HANSARDInternational Health Regulations: AmendmentsThe key thing that we are looking at here, which I would hope that all of us could agree on, is that we will not agree to anything in this process which impacts our sovereignty as…07 May 2024HANSARDInternational Health Regulations: AmendmentsI thank the noble Baroness. All Members of the House, when we had a good Question on the take-up of Covid vaccines, agreed that information supporting the take-up is a vital…07 May 2024HANSARDInternational Health Regulations: AmendmentsOf course, we covered much of this when we had a Question on 15 April around this. This is about making sure that we have the diagnostic capability—which we have—and the ability…07 May 2024HANSARDInternational Health Regulations: AmendmentsThe Government are satisfied that negotiations on amendments to the International Health Regulations comply with Article 55 of those regulations. Member states proposed…07 May 2024HANSARDNHS England: Ovarian CancerYes, absolutely. We all come at this from the perspective of making sure that health is front and centre, which is why the primary descriptors should be “man” and “woman”, as I…02 May 2024HANSARDNHS England: Ovarian CancerI am not sure that there was a question there, so I might take the easy option of thanking the noble Lord for his comments—and for maybe muddying the waters—and moving on.02 May 2024HANSARDNHS England: Ovarian CancerYes. Once again, I come at this from the perspective that health is the primary factor here. Clearly, a person’s biological sex is a key part of the information on their record…02 May 2024HANSARDNHS England: Ovarian CancerFirst, I thank the noble Baroness for all her work in this space. I will continue to work closely with her, including by writing to and meeting the GMC as necessary on all these…02 May 2024HANSARDNHS England: Ovarian CancerWe are writing to NHS England about NHS London’s social media post, to reiterate the expectation that biological sex should be front and centre of all health-related information.…02 May 2024HANSARDNHS England: Ovarian CancerYes. To reiterate, I think that we should always use “man” or “woman” as the primary descriptor. For people with English as a second language, “woman” is very understandable. We…02 May 2024HANSARDNHS England: Ovarian CancerAbsolutely, and I hope noble Lords have seen that I am keen to learn from wherever. I would be interested to understand more in this case. As I think we are all saying in these…02 May 2024HANSARDNHS England: Ovarian CancerI thank the noble Lord; he is always very good at bringing up some of those cases. I will look into it and make sure that we do that.02 May 2024HANSARDNHS England: Ovarian CancerI guess what I am trying to say here—again, always with my health hat firmly on—is that I want to make sure that when we describe something in a health sense, I want that person…02 May 2024HANSARDHomecare Medicines Services (Public Services Committee Report)My Lords, I am a bit slow in getting up. I will blame my son Xavi, who is in the Gallery. I was playing with him a bit too much this weekend, so I apologise. Now I am up, I will…02 May 2024HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccination: Coronary DiseaseThe main thing that the vaccine did was prevent any bad effects if you did get Covid. While it might not have reduced transmission much, its main benefit was that it reduced the…23 Apr 2024