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Thursday 5th June 2025
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)

Oral questions - Main Chamber
Subject: Addressing the shortage of Creon, a cancer medication, reported by the National Pharmacy Association
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Division Votes
2 Jun 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 110 Labour No votes vs 7 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 242 Noes - 116
4 Jun 2025 - Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill - View Vote Context
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 118 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 65 Noes - 130
4 Jun 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 114 Labour No votes vs 5 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 221 Noes - 116


Speeches
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick speeches from: Creon
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick contributed 2 speeches (153 words)
Thursday 5th June 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick speeches from: Employment Rights Bill
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick contributed 1 speech (488 words)
Committee stage
Thursday 5th June 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department for Business and Trade
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick speeches from: Ofcom: Protection of Children Codes
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick contributed 2 speeches (146 words)
Monday 2nd June 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department for Business and Trade


Written Answers
Coronavirus: Vaccination
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Friday 30th May 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to publish the data set of the UK Health Security Agency underpinning the article “Effectiveness of autumn 2023 COVID-19 vaccination and residual protection of prior doses against hospitalisation in England, estimated using a test-negative case-control study” published in May 2024.

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

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) does not plan to publish the dataset for this article.

This work is carried out under Regulation 3 of The Health Service (Control of Patient Information; Secretary of State for Health, 2002) using patient identification information without individual patient consent. This is part of the UKHSA’s legal requirement for public health surveillance and vaccine monitoring. The full regulation is available on the GOV.UK website.

As such, authors cannot release the underlying dataset publicly for ethical and legal reasons. However, all the data used for this analysis is included as aggregated data in the manuscript tables and appendix. The full manuscript is available on the UKHSA Research Portal, on the UKHSA’s website.

Influenza: Vaccination
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Friday 30th 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 14 May (HL7332), whether they plan to explore establishing contractual provisions for community pharmacies to support delivery of the childhood flu national immunisation programme.

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

NHS England has identified key opportunities to further improve uptake, which include strengthening the childhood vaccination offer by exploring the use of other providers to enhance convenience, including community pharmacies. This work is ongoing in collaboration with the Department, NHS England, and key stakeholders.

Influenza: Vaccination
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Friday 30th 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 14 May (HL7332), what steps they are taking to increase the role of health visitors in delivering vaccinations.

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

To increase the role of health visitors in delivering vaccinations, we are piloting the delivery of childhood vaccinations during health visits from 2025/26. This aims to improve access for families who may face challenges attending general practice appointments, helping to increase uptake and reduce barriers to vaccinations.

Incontinence: Health Services
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Monday 2nd June 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reporting by the i Paper on 14 December 2024 that 53 per cent of NHS trusts providing continence care cap the number of continence products which they provide to patients on a daily basis, rather than on the basis of need; and what steps they intend to take in response.

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

Patients deserve the very best health and care, and by developing a 10-Year Health Plan, we will deliver the three shifts needed to get the health service and the nation’s health thriving once again. We are committed to ensuring that the National Health Service is managed in a way that prioritises patient care and which delivers the best possible outcomes.

NHS England published Excellence in Continence Care, a copy of which is attached, on 23 July 2018, bringing together evidence-based resources and research for guidance for commissioners, providers, and health and social care staff. This guidance covers both urinary and bowel, also known as faecal, incontinence. The guidance states that “…pathways of care should be commissioned that ensure early assessment, effective management of incontinence, along with other bladder and bowel problems such as constipation and urinary tract infections and their impact on social, physical and mental well-being”. NHS England will consider the next steps for Excellence in Continence Care.

The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has produced guidance on the management of faecal incontinence in adults, which healthcare professionals and commissioners are expected to take fully into account when delivering services for people with bowel incontinence. The guidance aims to improve the physical and mental health and quality of life of people with faecal incontinence.

Incontinence: Health Services
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Monday 2nd June 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what practical steps are being taken to help raise awareness of (1) patient dignity, and (2) patient choice, in continence care.

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

Patients deserve the very best health and care, and by developing a 10-Year Health Plan, we will deliver the three shifts needed to get the health service and the nation’s health thriving once again. We are committed to ensuring that the National Health Service is managed in a way that prioritises patient care and which delivers the best possible outcomes.

NHS England published Excellence in Continence Care, a copy of which is attached, on 23 July 2018, bringing together evidence-based resources and research for guidance for commissioners, providers, and health and social care staff. This guidance covers both urinary and bowel, also known as faecal, incontinence. The guidance states that “…pathways of care should be commissioned that ensure early assessment, effective management of incontinence, along with other bladder and bowel problems such as constipation and urinary tract infections and their impact on social, physical and mental well-being”. NHS England will consider the next steps for Excellence in Continence Care.

The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has produced guidance on the management of faecal incontinence in adults, which healthcare professionals and commissioners are expected to take fully into account when delivering services for people with bowel incontinence. The guidance aims to improve the physical and mental health and quality of life of people with faecal incontinence.

Incontinence: Health Services
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Monday 2nd June 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the merits of prioritising patient dignity and choice in continence care as part of the 10 Year Health Plan.

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

Patients deserve the very best health and care, and by developing a 10-Year Health Plan, we will deliver the three shifts needed to get the health service and the nation’s health thriving once again. We are committed to ensuring that the National Health Service is managed in a way that prioritises patient care and which delivers the best possible outcomes.

NHS England published Excellence in Continence Care, a copy of which is attached, on 23 July 2018, bringing together evidence-based resources and research for guidance for commissioners, providers, and health and social care staff. This guidance covers both urinary and bowel, also known as faecal, incontinence. The guidance states that “…pathways of care should be commissioned that ensure early assessment, effective management of incontinence, along with other bladder and bowel problems such as constipation and urinary tract infections and their impact on social, physical and mental well-being”. NHS England will consider the next steps for Excellence in Continence Care.

The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has produced guidance on the management of faecal incontinence in adults, which healthcare professionals and commissioners are expected to take fully into account when delivering services for people with bowel incontinence. The guidance aims to improve the physical and mental health and quality of life of people with faecal incontinence.

Agriculture: Climate Change
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Friday 6th June 2025

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government how they plan to integrate approaches to adapting to climate change in (1) the Land Use Framework, (2) the Environmental Improvement Plan, (3) the 25-year farming road map, and (4) the food strategy, in line with recommendations made by the Climate Change Committee in the report Progress in adapting to climate change: 2025 report to Parliament, published on 30 April.

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

We welcome the Climate Change Committee's latest report and are carefully considering its recommendations. The Government is required under the Climate Change Act to respond by 15 October that same year. The Government response, led by Defra will include input from 12 departments addressing the 57 sectoral recommendations in the report.

Marine Protected Areas
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Friday 6th June 2025

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recommendation from the Climate Change Committee in the report Progress in adapting to climate change: 2025 report to Parliament, published on 30 April, to restore coastal marine habitats by regulating bottom trawling and improving protection of marine protected areas.

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

We welcome the Climate Change Committee's latest report and are carefully considering its recommendations. The Government is required under the Climate Change Act to respond by 15 October that same year. The Government response, led by Defra will include input from 12 departments addressing the 57 sectoral recommendations in the report.




Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick mentioned

Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 21st May 2025
Oral Evidence - University of Cambridge, Dr Richard Corbett CBE, Former MEP, and University of Oslo

Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Voice in the context of the Windsor Framework - Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee

Found: Lord Empey; Baroness Goudie; Lord Hain; Lord McInnes of Kilwinning; Baroness O’Loan; Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick



Bill Documents
Jun. 04 2025
HL Bill 81-VII Seventh Marshalled list for Committee
Employment Rights Bill 2024-26
Amendment Paper

Found: BARONESS BROWNING BARONESS RITCHIE OF DOWNPATRICK BARONESS FINLAY OF LLANDAFF 185_ Clause 38, page

May. 30 2025
HL Bill 81-VI Sixth Marshalled list for Committee
Employment Rights Bill 2024-26
Amendment Paper

Found: BARONESS BROWNING BARONESS RITCHIE OF DOWNPATRICK BARONESS FINLAY OF LLANDAFF 185_ Clause 38, page




Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick - Select Committee Information

Calendar
Wednesday 18th June 2025 10:30 a.m.
Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee - Private Meeting
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Wednesday 25th June 2025 10:30 a.m.
Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee - Private Meeting
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Monday 9th June 2025 2:30 p.m.
Autism Act 2009 Committee - Private Meeting
Subject: Autism Act 2009
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Monday 9th June 2025 2:30 p.m.
Autism Act 2009 Committee - Private Meeting
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Tuesday 15th July 2025 3:45 p.m.
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee - Private Meeting
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Wednesday 18th June 2025 10:30 a.m.
Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Voice in the context of the Windsor Framework
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Thursday 12th June 2025 9 a.m.
Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee - Private Meeting
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Monday 9th June 2025 2:30 p.m.
Autism Act 2009 Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Autism Act 2009
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Wednesday 11th June 2025 noon
Autism Act 2009 Committee - Private Meeting
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Monday 16th June 2025 3 p.m.
Autism Act 2009 Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Autism Act 2009
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Wednesday 18th June 2025 10:30 a.m.
Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Voice in the context of the Windsor Framework
At 10:45am: Oral evidence
Rt Hon Gavin Robinson MP - Party Leader at Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
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Monday 23rd June 2025 2:30 p.m.
Autism Act 2009 Committee - Private Meeting
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Wednesday 18th June 2025 10:30 a.m.
Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Voice in the context of the Windsor Framework
At 10:45am: Oral evidence
Rt Hon Gavin Robinson MP - Party Leader at Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
At 11:45am: Oral evidence
Matthew O'Toole MLA - SDLP Leader of the Opposition at Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
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Wednesday 18th June 2025 10:30 a.m.
Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Voice in the context of the Windsor Framework
At 10:45am: Oral evidence
Rt Hon Gavin Robinson MP - Party Leader at Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
At 11:45am: Oral evidence
Mr Matthew O'Toole MLA - SDLP's Leader of the Opposition at Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
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Tuesday 17th June 2025 3:45 p.m.
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee - Private Meeting
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Monday 23rd June 2025 2:30 p.m.
Autism Act 2009 Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Autism Act 2009
At 2:45pm: Oral evidence
Fazeela Hafejee - Assistant Director of Adults with Disabilities at Bradford Council, and Representative at Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
Nigel Minns - Chair of Health, Care & Additional Needs Policy Committee at Association of Directors of Children’s Services
Professor Asif Zia - Chief Medical Officer at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, and Chair of Mental Health Medical Director Forum at NHS Confederation
At 3:50pm: Oral evidence
Tom Cahill - National Director of Learning Disability and Autism Programme at NHS England
Dr Adrian James - Medical Director for Mental Health and Neurodiversity, at NHS England
Dr Ken Courtenay - Consultant Psychiatrist in Learning Disability at NHS England
Claire Murdoch - National Mental Health Director at NHS England
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Monday 23rd June 2025 2:30 p.m.
Autism Act 2009 Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Autism Act 2009
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Tuesday 8th July 2025 3:45 p.m.
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee - Private Meeting
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Wednesday 25th June 2025 10:30 a.m.
Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Voice in the context of the Windsor Framework
At 10:45am: Oral evidence
The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at Northern Ireland Office
Rt Hon Nick Thomas-Symonds MP - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office at Cabinet Office
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Wednesday 25th June 2025 10 a.m.
Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Voice in the context of the Windsor Framework
At 10:15am: Oral evidence
The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at Northern Ireland Office
Rt Hon Nick Thomas-Symonds MP - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office at Cabinet Office
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Tuesday 24th June 2025 3:45 p.m.
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee - Private Meeting
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Tuesday 1st July 2025 3:45 p.m.
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee - Private Meeting
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Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 21st May 2025
Oral Evidence - University of Cambridge, Dr Richard Corbett CBE, Former MEP, and University of Oslo

Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Voice in the context of the Windsor Framework - Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee
Thursday 8th May 2025
Oral Evidence - Limpsfield Grange School, Association of School and College Leaders, and Insights for Ambition Institute

Autism Act 2009 - Autism Act 2009 Committee
Thursday 8th May 2025
Oral Evidence - Care Quality Commission, and Professor Sheila the Baroness Hollins

Autism Act 2009 - Autism Act 2009 Committee
Monday 2nd June 2025
Oral Evidence - Sir Robert Buckland, Professor Amanda Kirby, and Sir Charlie Mayfield

Autism Act 2009 - Autism Act 2009 Committee
Monday 2nd June 2025
Oral Evidence - Telford & Wrekin Council, Sirona Care & Health, and Sirona Care & Health

Autism Act 2009 - Autism Act 2009 Committee
Monday 9th June 2025
Oral Evidence - Neurodiversity in Business, DFN Project SEARCH, Tegan Mulby, and Char Bailey

Autism Act 2009 - Autism Act 2009 Committee
Monday 9th June 2025
Oral Evidence - Patronbase, Babcock, and CubeLynx

Autism Act 2009 - Autism Act 2009 Committee
Monday 16th June 2025
Oral Evidence - University of Bath, Cambridge & Peterborough Foundation NHS Trust, HM Inspectorate of Probation, and National Police Autism Association

Autism Act 2009 - Autism Act 2009 Committee
Monday 16th June 2025
Oral Evidence - All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism

Autism Act 2009 - Autism Act 2009 Committee
Thursday 19th June 2025
Scrutiny evidence - Submission from Bumper on the draft Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities etc.) (Amendment) Order 2025 and Response from His Majesty's Treasury

Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
Thursday 19th June 2025
Scrutiny evidence - Submissions on the draft Marking of Retail Goods Regulations 2025 and Response from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee