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Written Question
Children: Protection
Thursday 16th December 2021

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Kamall on 17 November (HL3974), how many unborn children have been placed on the Child Protection Information sharing system using the pregnant woman’s National Health Service number.

Answered by Lord Kamall

The information is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Children: Protection
Wednesday 17th November 2021

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to include pregnant women whose children are likely to need a care plan from birth in the Child Protection – Information Sharing Project.

Answered by Lord Kamall

Unborn children on a protection plan can be on the Children Protection – Information Sharing system with the pregnant woman’s National Health Service number.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
Thursday 11th March 2021

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how they plan to make the COVID-19 test and trace system local by default; and what are the timescales for the changes they plan to make to existing systems.

Answered by Lord Bethell

The second NHS Test and Trace business plan was published on 10 December and set out how the Test and Trace service is strengthening its partnership with local government to tailor its response more to the needs of local communities and make the service faster, more reliable and even more accessible. This includes giving local public health teams more control through community-led testing; expanding local tracing partnerships, supported by potentially over £200 million per month of new funding through the Contain Outbreak Management Fund; working with local authorities to support them in providing better support for people who have to self-isolate; and using a shared framework of data, insight and analysis to identify clusters of new infections and potential local outbreaks.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Cumbria
Friday 19th February 2021

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to align the COVID-19 restriction level in Ulverston, Cumbria, with Barrow-in-Furness.

Answered by Lord Bethell

As of 6 January, all areas have been moved into tier 4 and the Government will review the tiering allocations every 14 days.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Screening
Friday 19th February 2021

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people in total have referred themselves for a NHS COVID-19 test; and what estimate they have made of the percentage of those people who self-referred who had (1) a cough, (2) a temperature, (3) a loss of taste, (4) multiple symptoms, and (5) no symptoms.

Answered by Lord Bethell

We do not publish data in the format requested.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Disease Control
Thursday 4th February 2021

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of travel-to-work areas that cross local authority boundaries when setting levels of COVID-19 restrictions for local areas.

Answered by Lord Bethell

Work travel patterns factored into the decision making. It is important to apply restrictions to broad geographical areas where there are significant interconnected economic and social networks. This approach enables the same restrictions to apply where people are likely to work and socialise.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Screening
Monday 1st February 2021

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish detailed guidance on the type of cough that should prompt a person to book a COVID-19 test.

Answered by Lord Bethell

The three main symptoms of COVID-19 are a high temperature, a loss or change to sense of smell or taste and a new continuous cough. This means coughing for more than an hour or three or more coughing episodes in 24 hours.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Screening
Tuesday 19th January 2021

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is (1) the total number, and (2) the percentage, of NHS COVID-19 tests that have recorded (a) positive, (b) negative, and (c) inconclusive, results for England; and how do such figures compare with (i) Northern Ireland, (ii) Wales, and (iii) Scotland.

Answered by Lord Bethell

The information is not held in the format requested.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Screening
Tuesday 19th January 2021

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is (1) the total number, and (2) the percentage, of NHS COVID-19 tests that have recorded (a) positive, (b) negative, and (c) inconclusive, results for each region of England.

Answered by Lord Bethell

The information is not held in the format requested.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Screening
Tuesday 19th January 2021

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is (1) the total number, and (2) the percentage, of NHS COVID-19 tests that have recorded (a) positive, (b) negative, and (c) inconclusive, results for each local authority area in England.

Answered by Lord Bethell

The information is not held in the format requested.