Asked by: Baroness Jay of Paddington (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the response by Lord Bethell on 19 January (HL Deb, cols 1080–4), what progress they have made towards developing research projects on brain tumours, and in particular on young people with brain tumours.
Answered by Lord Bethell
As part of the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission, the National Institute for Healthcare Research has received 69 applications, 10 of which have been funded and a further seven are under consideration. One of the funded applications is focused solely on children and others include young people.
Asked by: Baroness Jay of Paddington (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what role they see for (1) UK and other international volunteers, and (2) the mobilisation of community and national volunteers within ODA-recipient countries, in the delivery of the UK’s development goals.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK Government understands the unique contribution volunteers can make to sustainable development, including the FCDO's seven priority areas. During the Covid-19 response, our Volunteering for Development (V4D) programme has demonstrated the utility of local community and national volunteers, who can mobilise as first responders even where national and international travel is restricted.
The UK Government was pleased to fund the Global Standard for Volunteering, launched in 2019, which sets a useful benchmark for how volunteers can be deployed in a responsible, effective and safe way.
Asked by: Baroness Jay of Paddington (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to deliver the next phase of the Volunteering for Development programme.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The impact of the global pandemic on the UK economy has forced us to take the tough but necessary decision to temporarily reduce our aid budget. We are now working through the implications of these changes for individual programmes, including for the Volunteering for Development grant. No decisions have yet been made.
Asked by: Baroness Jay of Paddington (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to replace the International Citizen Service programme.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The safety of volunteers is the FCDO's first priority. In response to the emerging pandemic, in March 2020 we suspended all International Citizen Service (ICS) placements and successfully returned all volunteers home.
We will continue to monitor the risks of overseas placements and place the wellbeing of volunteers at the heart of any future decisions on ICS or equivalent youth volunteering schemes.
Asked by: Baroness Jay of Paddington (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many statutory instruments laid under the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 they anticipate laying as (1) proposed negative instruments, and (2) draft statutory instruments.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
I refer to my Hon Friend’s, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union’s, letter to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, the European Statutory Instruments Committee, and the Procedure Committee dated 25 October, published in the committee’s 42nd Report of Session 2017-19, where he sets out the expected ranges of Brexit statutory instruments we expect to lay for each month up to March 2019. All statutory instruments are being published on legislation.gov.uk, and the Government has committed that statutory instruments relating to EU exit will be clearly titled.
Asked by: Baroness Jay of Paddington (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many statutory instruments they expect to lay before Parliament under the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 in each month to March 2019.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
I refer to my Hon Friend’s, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union’s, letter to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, the European Statutory Instruments Committee, and the Procedure Committee dated 25 October, published in the committee’s 42nd Report of Session 2017-19, where he sets out the expected ranges of Brexit statutory instruments we expect to lay for each month up to March 2019. All statutory instruments are being published on legislation.gov.uk, and the Government has committed that statutory instruments relating to EU exit will be clearly titled.
Asked by: Baroness Jay of Paddington (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many statutory instruments they expect to lay before Parliament to address any gaps in the statute book arising from the UK’s withdrawal from the EU; and how many of those instruments they anticipate will be laid under (1) the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018, and (2) other primary legislation.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
I refer to my Hon Friend’s, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union’s, letter to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, the European Statutory Instruments Committee, and the Procedure Committee dated 25 October, published in the committee’s 42nd Report of Session 2017-19, where he sets out the expected ranges of Brexit statutory instruments we expect to lay for each month up to March 2019. All statutory instruments are being published on legislation.gov.uk, and the Government has committed that statutory instruments relating to EU exit will be clearly titled.