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Information between 15th December 2023 - 14th March 2024

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Division Votes
16 Jan 2024 - Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Hay of Ballyore voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 6 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes vs 0 Democratic Unionist Party No votes
Tally: Ayes - 102 Noes - 212
22 Jan 2024 - Asylum: UK-Rwanda Agreement - View Vote Context
Lord Hay of Ballyore voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 5 Democratic Unionist Party No votes vs 0 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 214 Noes - 171
23 Jan 2024 - Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Hay of Ballyore voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 4 Democratic Unionist Party No votes vs 0 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 201 Noes - 227
4 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Hay of Ballyore voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 5 Democratic Unionist Party No votes vs 0 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 282 Noes - 180
6 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Hay of Ballyore voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 4 Democratic Unionist Party No votes vs 0 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 278 Noes - 189


Speeches
Lord Hay of Ballyore speeches from: Northern Ireland
Lord Hay of Ballyore contributed 1 speech (1,557 words)
Tuesday 27th February 2024 - Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Office
Lord Hay of Ballyore speeches from: Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024
Lord Hay of Ballyore contributed 2 speeches (1,115 words)
Tuesday 13th February 2024 - Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Office


Written Answers
Cancer: Health Services
Asked by: Lord Hay of Ballyore (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Wednesday 24th January 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure equitable access to cancer treatment and care across different regions of the UK; and what steps they are taking to improve cancer survival rates.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Reducing inequalities and variation in cancer treatment is a priority for this Government as is increasing early cancer diagnosis, as this is a key contributor to reducing cancer health inequalities. People in deprived areas are at greater risk of contracting cancer, more likely to have a cancer diagnosed at a later stage and suffer from higher cancer death rates and poorer survival. Survival rates have been improving for almost all cancers and across all demographics, with 74.6% people surviving a year after diagnosis, up from 65.6% in 2005, and 55.7% surviving five years, up from 47.9% in 2005.

The National Health Service has rolled out Targeted Lung Health Checks, prioritising more deprived areas, so that people in the most deprived quintile are now more likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer at an early stage, namely stage one or two, than those in the least deprived quintile, giving them a much greater chance of survival.

On 14 August 2023, the Government published a strategic framework for the Major Conditions Strategy to consider the six conditions, including cancer, that contribute most to morbidity and mortality across the population in England, including cancer. The Major Conditions Strategy will apply a geographical lens to each condition to address regional disparities in health outcomes, supporting the levelling up mission to narrow the gap in healthy life expectancy by 2030.

Alzheimer's Disease: Health Services
Asked by: Lord Hay of Ballyore (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Wednesday 24th January 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve treatment and care for patients with Alzheimer's.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

We want a society where every person with dementia, their families and carers, receive high quality, compassionate care, from diagnosis through to end of life. To improve care for patients with dementia, including those with Alzheimer’s disease, NHS England's RightCare team is refreshing the RightCare Dementia Scenario. The scenario works through the dementia well pathway journey from diagnosing well through to dying well, detailing optimal and sub optimal approaches, with associated costings for each. The RightCare team is developing a dementia model pathway based on data for each component of the dementia well pathway to provide a high-level view of what dementia care activity looks like for local areas and will support targeted support where appropriate.

There are also several potential new disease modifying treatments for Alzheimer’s disease in development. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS England and the Department are working closely to ensure that arrangements are in place to support the adoption of any new licensed and NICE recommended treatment for dementia as soon as possible.

Fisheries
Asked by: Lord Hay of Ballyore (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Monday 22nd January 2024

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

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the UK is actively enforcing its fishing rights.

Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

As an independent coastal state, the UK has full responsibility over how it ensures compliance in its fisheries. All fishing vessels in UK waters are required to fish in accordance with UK laws and the conditions of their licences. As control and enforcement is a devolved matter, Defra, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive work together to share information and ensure a coordinated approach to monitoring, compliance and enforcement across UK waters.

Mental Health Services: Veterans
Asked by: Lord Hay of Ballyore (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Monday 18th December 2023

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve mental health support services for military veterans, including those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Service Personnel who have been assessed and diagnosed with a mental health need are able to access the Ministry of Defence community mental health services for up to six months after discharge, to provide continuity of care during the transition period, until appropriate handover to the National Health Service and other services can be completed as required.

In April 2023, NHS England commissioned Op COURAGE which is the veterans’ mental health and wellbeing service providing a comprehensive mental health treatment pathway to respond to veterans’ needs. Access to Op COURAGE is via referral or by direct contact from veterans. There is ever increasing investment in this area with the highest level to date in 2023/2024 with planned spend of £23.5 million. Following the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, an additional £2.7 million was pledged over three years until March 2025, to expand Op COURAGE services to support those experiencing complex mental and/or physical trauma or alcohol and substance misuse.

The Government is providing an additional £10 million to support the Veterans’ Places, People and Pathways Programme to increase support to a significant community of vulnerable veterans throughout the United Kingdom and enable it to become self-sustaining.

Gambling: Internet
Asked by: Lord Hay of Ballyore (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Tuesday 19th December 2023

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what recent steps have been taken to (1) raise awareness of the risks, and (2) promote responsible practices, in relation to online gambling, particularly among vulnerable groups such as young people and individuals with mental health challenges.

Answered by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

His Majesty’s Government recognises that, while millions of people gamble online without experiencing problems, for some it becomes an addiction with serious consequences. It is particularly important to take steps to protect vulnerable groups, including young people, from risks associated with online gambling.

In April the Department for Culture, Media and Sport published a White Paper following our review of the Gambling Act 2005. The White Paper outlined a series of measures to tackle practices and products which can drive harm and to ensure that people who are at risk of gambling harm and addiction are protected. These include new, frictionless financial risk checks, a stake limit for online slots games, improvements to customer-led tools, and tougher restrictions on bonuses and direct marketing. These measures will be complemented by strengthened informational messaging about the risks associated with gambling. The White Paper also contained a commitment to introduce a new statutory levy paid by operators to fund research, prevention, and treatment. In July the Gambling Commission also published a vulnerability statement, outlining its approach to identifying, supporting, and protecting consumers who are in vulnerable situations.

We are working with the Gambling Commission and others to bring the measures from the White Paper into force as quickly as possible, and have already published consultations on a number of important proposals so that we can finalise details ahead of their implementation.

Undocumented Migrants: Northern Ireland
Asked by: Lord Hay of Ballyore (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Tuesday 19th December 2023

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of people who have entered the UK illegally via Northern Ireland’s border with the Republic of Ireland during the last 12 months.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

To maintain the highest standards of accuracy, the Home Office prefers to refer to published data, as this has been subject to rigorous quality assurance under National Statistics protocols prior to publication.

Information about illegal entry to the UK is not currently available in our published data.

Our published data is available at the following link: Immigration system statistics, year ending September 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Prisoners' Transfers
Asked by: Lord Hay of Ballyore (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Monday 29th January 2024

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many offenders were transferred from prisons in (1) England, and (2) Wales, to prisons in Northern Ireland in (a) 2021, and (b) 2022.

Answered by Lord Bellamy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

There were no transfers from prisons in England or Wales to Northern Ireland in 2021. In 2022, three prisoners were transferred from prisons in England and four from prisons in Wales.

Immigration Controls
Asked by: Lord Hay of Ballyore (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Tuesday 30th January 2024

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to enhance UK border security and immigration enforcement.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Home Office’s priority is to deliver a safe and secure border and we will never compromise on this. Border Force maintain 100% checks for all scheduled arriving passengers into the UK and this will be continued during any period.

Border Force deploys to risk using tested, but continually assessed, intelligence and targeting techniques. Border Force does not publish information on operational activities. Doing so would publicise operational practices which would be used to assist in the evasion of customs controls and compromise border security.

Immigration Enforcement is taking robust action to tackle illegal migration through:

  • returning more than 24,000 people in 2023 who have no right to be in the UK, including more than 5,500 Albanians;
  • increasing enforcement visits, with 10,509 in the first 9 months of 2023 compared to 6,865 in the same period in 2022 and 5,576 people arrested linked to these compared to 2,175 in the previous year; and
  • disrupting organised crime groups, resulting in 246 arrests of people smugglers in 2023.
Asylum: Torture
Asked by: Lord Hay of Ballyore (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Tuesday 30th January 2024

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers who have claimed to be victims of torture have been detained at immigration centres.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

We are unable to provide the information requested, as it can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.




Lord Hay of Ballyore mentioned

Parliamentary Debates
Northern Ireland
42 speeches (28,471 words)
Tuesday 27th February 2024 - Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Caine (Con - Life peer) I welcome the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Hay of Ballyore, and of the noble Baroness, Lady Suttie - Link to Speech

Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024
39 speeches (18,785 words)
Tuesday 13th February 2024 - Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Caine (Con - Life peer) Lady Foster of Aghadrumsee, and I very much welcome the tone of the contribution from the noble Lord, Lord - Link to Speech

British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill
14 speeches (4,460 words)
2nd reading
Friday 26th January 2024 - Commons Chamber

Mentions:
1: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) My colleague in the other place, Lord Hay of Ballyore, commented last year that this conundrum was first - Link to Speech
2: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) Let us take, for example, my friend in the other place whom I mentioned earlier, Lord Hay of Ballyore - Link to Speech



Bill Documents
Feb. 14 2024
Briefing paper on the Bill
British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill 2023-24
Briefing papers

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