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Division Votes
12 May 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Baroness Merron voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 137 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 164 Noes - 152
12 May 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Baroness Merron voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 145 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 200 Noes - 183
12 May 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Baroness Merron voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 144 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 289 Noes - 168
12 May 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Baroness Merron voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 120 Labour No votes vs 8 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 272 Noes - 125


Speeches
Baroness Merron speeches from: Doncaster Royal Infirmary
Baroness Merron contributed 6 speeches (694 words)
Monday 12th May 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Baroness Merron speeches from: Care Quality Commission: Mental Health Care Waiting Times
Baroness Merron contributed 9 speeches (877 words)
Thursday 8th May 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Baroness Merron speeches from: Medical Devices (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2025
Baroness Merron contributed 1 speech (21 words)
Thursday 8th May 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Baroness Merron speeches from: Medical Devices (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2025
Baroness Merron contributed 3 speeches (2,021 words)
Tuesday 6th May 2025 - Grand Committee
Department of Health and Social Care



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8 May 2025, 12:49 p.m. - House of Lords
"Regulations. Baroness Merron. "
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Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 7th May 2025
Oral Evidence - Department of Health and Social Care, and Department of Health and Social Care

Written Parliamentary Questions: Departmental performance in Session 2024-25 - Procedure Committee

Found: I know that your purview is the Commons, but my colleague Baroness Merron has sight of what comes down



Written Answers
Prisons: Speech and Language Therapy
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Tuesday 13th May 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 6 May (HL6997), which organisation holds the information requested regarding speech and language services in prisons in England.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

This information would be held at a local level by the prison healthcare providers.

Circumcision
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Tuesday 13th May 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 30 April (HL6268), how many children were hospitalised as a result of non-therapeutic male circumcision between 2015 and 2025.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The data is not available in the format requested. Data is collected on admissions with a primary diagnosis code of routine and ritual circumcision. This data is available for 2023/24, by age group, on the NHS.UK website, in an online only format.

Cancer: Health Services
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Friday 9th May 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, what further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 27 March (HL5042), what assessment they have made of the impact on individual integrated care board (ICB) areas of the approximately 9 percent reduction in funding for cancer alliances in 2025–26, following the consolidation of Service Development Funding into core allocations; and what is the breakdown of the total cancer alliance allocation for 2025–26 for each ICB area, compared to the allocation for 2024–25.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Funding for Cancer Alliances is set nationally by NHS England. The place-based allocation is calculated on a population basis, and is flexible funding that Alliances use to support the delivery of NHS-wide priorities for cancer in ways that reflect local circumstances.

We have set stretching targets for the National Health Service to improve cancer performance next year and taken tough decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget. These decisions have enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26.

The following tables show information from the NHS Cancer Programme about the funding allocated to Cancer Alliances in 2024/25 and 2025/26, across both place based and targeted allocations; these are inclusive of NHS cost uplift factors which adjusts for inflation and other cost increases:

Funding for 2024/25

Cancer Alliance

Lead Integrated Care Board

Total place-based allocation (£ ‘000s)

Total targeted allocation (£ ‘000s)

Cheshire and Merseyside

CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE ICB

13,417

8,457

East Midlands

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ICB

22,564

8,139

East of England

CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH ICB

30,266

14,598

Greater Manchester

GREATER MANCHESTER INTEGRATED CARE ICB

14,789

17,331

Humber Coast and Vale

HUMBER AND NORTH YORKSHIRE ICB

8,085

5,960

Kent and Medway

KENT AND MEDWAY ICB

8,655

5.090

Lancashire and South Cumbria

LANCASHIRE AND SOUTH CUMBRIA ICB

8,854

4,458

North Central London

NORTH CENTRAL LONDON ICB

7,358

5,792

North East London

NORTH EAST LONDON ICB

9,752

3,448

Northern

NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA ICB

15,465

10,631

Peninsula

DEVON ICB

8,724

7,787

South East London

SOUTH EAST LONDON ICB

8,845

2,959

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw

SOUTH YORKSHIRE ICB

6,801

3,993

Surrey and Sussex

SURREY HEARTLANDS ICB

15,874

6,514

SWAG

BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE ICB

14,404

6,390

Thames Valley

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE AND BERKSHIRE WEST ICB

7,661

3,018

Wessex

HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT ICB

12,188

10,798

West London

SOUTH WEST LONDON ICB

17,778

9,303

West Midlands

BLACK COUNTRY ICB

29,045

10,802

West Yorkshire and Harrogate

WEST YORKSHIRE ICB

11,679

2,893

Grand Total

272,203

148,363

Source: NHS Cancer Programme

Funding for 2025/26

Cancer Alliance

Lead Integrated Care Board

Total place-based allocation (£ ‘000s)

Total targeted allocation (£ ‘000s)

Cheshire and Merseyside

CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE ICB

10,068

12,948

East Midlands

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ICB

17,027

10,366

East of England

CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH ICB

22,619

16,683

Greater Manchester

GREATER MANCHESTER INTEGRATED CARE ICB

11,128

17,713

Humber Coast and Vale

HUMBER AND NORTH YORKSHIRE ICB

6,015

5,278

Kent and Medway

KENT AND MEDWAY ICB

6,451

2,256

Lancashire and South Cumbria

LANCASHIRE AND SOUTH CUMBRIA ICB

6,666

4,432

North Central London

NORTH CENTRAL LONDON ICB

5,597

4,354

North East London

NORTH EAST LONDON ICB

7,481

3,267

Northern

NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA ICB

11,593

16,047

Peninsula

DEVON ICB

6,460

11,559

South East London

SOUTH EAST LONDON ICB

6,633

4,515

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw

SOUTH YORKSHIRE ICB

5,147

6,379

Surrey and Sussex

SURREY HEARTLANDS ICB

11,765

8,336

SWAG

BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE ICB

10,681

8,318

Thames Valley

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE AND BERKSHIRE WEST ICB

5,676

4,173

Wessex

HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT ICB

9,055

8,507

West London

SOUTH WEST LONDON ICB

13,526

8,972

West Midlands

BLACK COUNTRY ICB

21,906

16,741

West Yorkshire and Harrogate

WEST YORKSHIRE ICB

8,808

4,096

Grand Total

204,302

174,940

Source: NHS Cancer Programme

NHS: Finance
Asked by: Lord Kamall (Conservative - Life peer)
Friday 9th May 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 18 March (HL5406), what assessment, if any, they have made of the impact of the 2025–26 Payment Scheme and Standard Contract on (1) the willingness of ophthalmology service providers to build new specialist eye hospitals in England, and (2) the ability and willingness of other independent providers of NHS funded care in England to build new health infrastructure to meet the demands of the NHS.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

No specific assessment has been made of the impact the 2025/26 Payment Scheme and Standard Contract will have on the willingness of ophthalmology service providers to build new specialist eye hospitals in England, or the ability and willingness of other independent providers of National Health Service funded care in England to build new health infrastructure. It is for independent sector providers to determine the most appropriate investment decisions for their businesses.

However, decisions around the annual Payment Scheme and updates to the Standard Contract are subject to consultation, with a legal duty to consult on the Payment Scheme and Standard Contract every year. This includes consultation with independent providers.

The consultation on the Payment Scheme proposed requiring commissioners to set a payment limit for elective services, and all services paid for on an activity basis, based on the value of planned levels of activity. Providers would not be paid for activity above this limit. Following consideration of consultation feedback, this proposal has not been implemented. As in previous years, providers will be paid prices for all activity delivered, subject to any activity management restrictions contractually applied by commissioners. A consultation on further changes to the Standard Contract closed on 28 April 2025, and NHS England is reflecting on the feedback received before publishing the final contract.