Information between 4th November 2025 - 14th November 2025
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11 Nov 2025 - Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - View Vote Context Lord Scriven voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 52 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 68 Noes - 169 |
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11 Nov 2025 - Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - View Vote Context Lord Scriven voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 54 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 201 Noes - 238 |
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11 Nov 2025 - Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - View Vote Context Lord Scriven voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 54 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 1 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 89 Noes - 195 |
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11 Nov 2025 - Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - View Vote Context Lord Scriven voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 52 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 66 Noes - 175 |
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11 Nov 2025 - Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - View Vote Context Lord Scriven voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 52 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 193 Noes - 236 |
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11 Nov 2025 - Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - View Vote Context Lord Scriven voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 55 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 207 Noes - 240 |
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Circumcision: Boys
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Wednesday 5th November 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government what evidence-based assessment they have conducted of the safety of the non-regulation of unanaesthetised non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) The Government has no plans to make changes to the regulatory framework for unanaesthetised non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. No recent evidence-based assessment has been conducted in relation to the regulatory oversight of unanaesthetised non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. |
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Circumcision: Boys
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Wednesday 5th November 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to introduce regulations for unanaesthetised non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) The Government has no plans to make changes to the regulatory framework for unanaesthetised non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. No recent evidence-based assessment has been conducted in relation to the regulatory oversight of unanaesthetised non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. |
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NHS England
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Thursday 6th November 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government why a contract worth £8 million for IT consultancy is required to support the abolition of NHS England and the transfer of many of its functions to the Department of Health and Social Care. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) We inherited two head offices for the National Health Service, one for NHS England and one for the Department of Health and Social Care, and with two organisations comes two sets of corporate IT systems. This two-year contract will maximise efficiency and boost productivity by designing and integrating the Department and NHS England’s corporate IT functions to create one single system following the merger. All Government contracts are robustly assessed to ensure they deliver value for the taxpayer. |
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Learning Disability: Health Services
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Thursday 6th November 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government what measures are used by NHS England or the Department of Health and Social Care to measure improvements to health for people with learning disabilities directly linked to the Core20PLUS5 programme. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) The Core20PLUS5 is a national approach to inform action to reduce healthcare inequalities at a system level. The approach defines a target population, the Core20PLUS, and five clinical areas to focus on that require accelerated improvement. PLUS population groups should be identified at a local level. NHS England expects to see learning disability identified as a priority cohort. The Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme has worked closely with NHS England’s clinical programmes to develop and embed indicators which enable the monitoring of the access, experience, and outcomes for Core20PLUS populations, and this includes people with a learning disability. The Core20PLUS5 indicator for learning disability is the Percentage of patients aged 14+ on GP learning disability registers who received an annual health check. NHS England has published a Statement on Information on Health Inequalities which sets out the data that integrated care boards (ICBs) are expected to collect. This includes that ICBs should publish in their 2023/24 and 2024/25 annual reports relating to learning disability annual health checks and adult mental health inpatient rates for people with a learning disability and autistic people. Within these annual reports, it is expected that ICBs should explain how the information has been used to guide action. In addition, each ICB must have an executive lead for learning disability and autism who will support the board in addressing health inequalities, supporting equal access to care across all health services, and improving overall health outcomes. |
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Learning Disability
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Thursday 6th November 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government what improvements have been made to life expectancy for people with learning disabilities through the Core20PLUS5 programme. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) The Core20PLUS5 is a national approach to inform action to reduce healthcare inequalities at a system level. The approach defines a target population, the Core20PLUS, and five clinical areas to focus on that require accelerated improvement. PLUS population groups should be identified at a local level. NHS England expects to see learning disability identified as a priority cohort. The Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme has worked closely with NHS England’s clinical programmes to develop and embed indicators which enable the monitoring of the access, experience, and outcomes for Core20PLUS populations, and this includes people with a learning disability. The Core20PLUS5 indicator for learning disability is the Percentage of patients aged 14+ on GP learning disability registers who received an annual health check. NHS England has published a Statement on Information on Health Inequalities which sets out the data that integrated care boards (ICBs) are expected to collect. This includes that ICBs should publish in their 2023/24 and 2024/25 annual reports relating to learning disability annual health checks and adult mental health inpatient rates for people with a learning disability and autistic people. Within these annual reports, it is expected that ICBs should explain how the information has been used to guide action. In addition, each ICB must have an executive lead for learning disability and autism who will support the board in addressing health inequalities, supporting equal access to care across all health services, and improving overall health outcomes. |
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Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Monday 10th November 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government how many formal meetings there have been between a minister and either (1) the senior manager, or (2) the clinical lead at NHS England, with responsibility for the learning from lives and deaths programme since July 2024, and on which dates those meetings took place. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) There have been regular conversations between the relevant minister, Department officials, and senior clinical and managerial leads at NHS England in relation to improving overall health outcomes for people with a learning disability and autistic people. Insights from the programme of learning from the lives and deaths of people with a learning disability and autistic people plays an important role in shaping these broader conversations about tackling health inequalities and improving identification, access to, and the quality of services. |
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14 Nov 2025, 1:09 p.m. - House of Lords "carefully to both the noble and learned Lord Pannick comments and also Lord Scriven. So, so it is " Lord Harper (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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14 Nov 2025, 1:10 p.m. - House of Lords "the noble Lord Scriven made. Of course, it is true that people do " Lord Harper (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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13 Nov 2025, 11:07 a.m. - House of Lords " Lord Scriven I beg leave to ask the question standing on in my name on the Order Paper. " Oral questions: Effectiveness of learning disabilities mortality review (LeDeR) reports in improving life outcomes Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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13 Nov 2025, 11:10 a.m. - House of Lords "thanking the noble Lord Lord Scriven for shining a light on this really important issue, and also for repeating the the stat that " Lord Kamall (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Reports
24 speeches (1,445 words) Thursday 13th November 2025 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Scriven, for shining a light on this really important issue and - Link to Speech |
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National Health Service (Procurement, Slavery and Human Trafficking) Regulations 2025
11 speeches (2,780 words) Monday 10th November 2025 - Grand Committee Mentions: 1: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) therefore request further clarity from the Minister on a number of areas.First, the noble Lord, Lord Scriven - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Wheeler (Lab - Life peer) apologise that I will have to write on a number of issues, but I will try my best.The noble Lord, Lord Scriven - Link to Speech |
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Artificial Intelligence: Safeguarding
19 speeches (1,423 words) Tuesday 4th November 2025 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Scriven, and the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, have said, perhaps they could suggest - Link to Speech |
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Tuesday 4th November 2025
Department of Health and Social Care Source Page: Letter dated 29/10/2025 from Baroness Merron to Peers regarding questions raised during the draft Human Medicines (Authorisation by Pharmacists and Supervision by Pharmacy Technicians) Order debate: authorisations - conditions and ability to alter or withdraw, supervision, training of pharmacy technicians, accountability, Northern Ireland, pharmacy funding, and monitoring and review. 3p. Document: Letter_from_Baroness_Merron-SI_Debate.pdf (PDF) Found: the noble Baroness Hollins, Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, Lord Scriven |
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Monday 10th November 2025 2:30 p.m. Autism Act 2009 Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |