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Division Vote (Lords)
11 Mar 2025 - Football Governance Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Mawson (XB) voted No and in line with the House
One of 29 Crossbench No votes vs 4 Crossbench Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 203 Noes - 257
Division Vote (Lords)
5 Mar 2025 - Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Mawson (XB) voted No and in line with the House
One of 35 Crossbench No votes vs 4 Crossbench Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 167 Noes - 228
Division Vote (Lords)
4 Mar 2025 - Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Mawson (XB) voted No and in line with the House
One of 21 Crossbench No votes vs 3 Crossbench Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 200 Noes - 236
Division Vote (Lords)
4 Mar 2025 - Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Mawson (XB) voted No and in line with the House
One of 28 Crossbench No votes vs 3 Crossbench Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 214 Noes - 248
Division Vote (Lords)
4 Mar 2025 - Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Mawson (XB) voted No and in line with the House
One of 25 Crossbench No votes vs 5 Crossbench Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 213 Noes - 249
Division Vote (Lords)
25 Feb 2025 - National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Mawson (XB) voted Aye and in line with the House
One of 4 Crossbench Aye votes vs 2 Crossbench No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 182 Noes - 144
Division Vote (Lords)
25 Feb 2025 - National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Mawson (XB) voted No and against the House
One of 7 Crossbench No votes vs 4 Crossbench Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 189 Noes - 151
Division Vote (Lords)
25 Feb 2025 - National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Mawson (XB) voted Aye and in line with the House
One of 11 Crossbench Aye votes vs 4 Crossbench No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 199 Noes - 149
Written Question
Asthma: Medical Equipment
Monday 24th February 2025

Asked by: Lord Mawson (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many plastic spacers for asthma inhalers (1) have been prescribed, and (2) at what cost, in each of the last five years; what guidance there is on how often such spacers need to be replaced; when such guidance was given to providers in the NHS; and what assessment they have made of the cost to the NHS of the implementation of this guidance.

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

The following table shows the total number of prescription items, quantities and Net Ingredient Cost (NIC) of spacer/holding chamber devices that were dispensed in England regardless of where prescribed from January 2019 to November 2024:

Calendar Year

Total Items

Total Quantity

Total NIC (£)

2019

1,857,744

1,974,051

11,960,224.48

2020

1,437,840

1,525,746

9,091,373.81

2021

1,652,145

1,752,204

10,847,694.23

2022

1,825,426

1,944,489

12,241,335.04

2023

1,900,533

2,037,113

12,843,890.18

2024 Jan-Nov (11 months)

1,777,964

1,918,473

11,924,830.03

Total

10,451,652

11,152,076

68,909,347.77

Source: NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA)

Notes:

  1. Data was based on the information within the Prescription Cost Analysis published statistics, using Part IXA of the Drug Tariff for Spacer/Holding Chamber device as the basis to provide a list of spacer products held in the NHSBSA drn+d database
  2. Items have been dispensed, but not necessarily prescribed, in England.

Information on how to look after a spacer device is included in the patient information leaflet that is provided to patients with their device. This can be found in the section on how to look after the device and includes cleaning and storage instructions as well as advice on when the device should be replaced. The general advice for the spacers available in the United Kingdom is that they should be replaced after one year.

Guidance for patients on device replacement can also be found on patient support websites such as Asthma and Lung UK which includes similar advice: ‘You should replace your spacer at least every year, especially if you use it daily, but some may need to be replaced sooner – ask your GP, nurse or pharmacist if you’re unsure.’

Guidance for healthcare professionals can be found on the Right Breath website and on the NHS clinical guidance page which recommend that all spacers should be replaced annually while the British National Formulary which provides healthcare professionals with up-to-date information about the use of medicines recommends that spacer devices should be replaced every six to 12 months.

NHS England is not aware of any additional clinical guidance it has issued, other than that contained in the product information, about replacing spacers.


Written Question
Health Professions: Training
Monday 24th February 2025

Asked by: Lord Mawson (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the average number of hours spent by doctors and nurses in statutory and mandatory training; and what is the cost to the NHS of the time they spend undertaking such training.

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

The exact amount of statutory and mandatory training completed varies, depending on which organisation they work for, their role or roles, and the frequency of their movement between organisations, for instance resident doctors rotating between organisations may have to repeat some of the training.

On average, it is estimated that nationally defined statutory and mandatory training takes up to eight hours or one day per person per year and locally mandated training will add to this. This considerable investment of time has to be balanced against the fact that this training is both important, for instance safety training and emergency preparedness training, and often required by law.

In early 2024, NHS England commenced work in partnership with the Department, the Care Quality Commission, the Health Services Safety Investigations Branch, and NHS Resolution to reform statutory and mandatory training through a programme to optimise, rationalise, and redesign.