Lord Vallance of Balham

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Tuesday 28th January 2025 Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Lord Vallance of Balham (Labour - Life peer) Legislation - Main Chamber Subject: Data (Use and Access) Bill – report stage (day 2) Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] 2024-26 View calendar - Add to calendar
Tuesday 21st January 2025 Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Lord Vallance of Balham (Labour - Life peer) Legislation - Main Chamber Subject: Data (Use and Access) Bill – report stage (day 1) Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] 2024-26 View calendar - Add to calendar

Speeches
Lord Vallance of Balham speeches from: Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] Lord Vallance of Balham contributed 3 speeches (645 words) Committee stage Wednesday 18th December 2024 - Grand Committee Department for Business and Trade
Lord Vallance of Balham speeches from: Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] Lord Vallance of Balham contributed 4 speeches (706 words) Committee stage Monday 16th December 2024 - Grand Committee Department for Business and Trade
Lord Vallance of Balham speeches from: Undersea Cables Lord Vallance of Balham contributed 12 speeches (760 words) Tuesday 3rd December 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Lord Vallance of Balham mentioned

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Wednesday 11th December 2024 2 p.m. Environmental Audit Committee - Oral evidence Subject: The UK and the Antarctic environment [revived] At 2:15pm: Oral evidence James Gray - Former Chair at Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research (2023–24) At 2:45pm: Oral evidence Professor Dame Jane Francis DCMG - Director at British Antarctic Survey Dr Iain Williams - Director of Strategic Partnerships at Natural Environment Research Council At 3:30pm: Oral evidence The Lord Vallance of Balham KCB - Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Stephen Doughty MP - Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Jane Rumble OBE - Head of the Polar Regions Department at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office View calendar

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Wednesday 11th December 2024 2 p.m.
Environmental Audit Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: The UK and the Antarctic environment [revived]
At 2:15pm: Oral evidence
James Gray - Former Chair at Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research (2023–24)
At 2:45pm: Oral evidence
Professor Dame Jane Francis DCMG - Director at British Antarctic Survey
Dr Iain Williams - Director of Strategic Partnerships at Natural Environment Research Council
At 3:30pm: Oral evidence
The Lord Vallance of Balham KCB - Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Stephen Doughty MP - Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
Jane Rumble OBE - Head of the Polar Regions Department at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 11th December 2024 Oral Evidence - Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office The UK and the Antarctic environment [revived] - Environmental Audit Committee Found: Lord Vallance of Balham: Patrick Vallance.
Wednesday 11th December 2024 Oral Evidence - British Antarctic Survey, and Natural Environment Research Council The UK and the Antarctic environment [revived] - Environmental Audit Committee Found: Lord Vallance of Balham: Patrick Vallance.
Wednesday 11th December 2024 Oral Evidence - Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research (2023–24) The UK and the Antarctic environment [revived] - Environmental Audit Committee Found: Lord Vallance of Balham: Patrick Vallance.
Thursday 5th December 2024 Correspondence - Letter from Baroness Brown of Cambridge to Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Cabinet Office, ref Vaccine resilience for the next pandemic Science and Technology Committee Found: We pursued the matter further on 15 October with Lord Vallance of Balham, the Minister for Science.10

Written Answers
Telecommunications Cables: Seas and Oceans Asked by: Earl Attlee (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary) Thursday 19th December 2024 Question to the Ministry of Defence: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Vallance of Balham on 3 December (HL Deb cols 1033–1034), whether they have an agreed retaliation doctrine for the cutting of UK undersea cables. Answered by Lord Coaker - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) The UK Government constantly monitors and regularly assesses the security of critical national infrastructure, including energy and telecommunications assets in the UK's Exclusive Economic Zone. This is a whole-of-Government effort involving multiple Departments, including the Ministry of Defence. While it is not appropriate for us to discuss the specifics of response options, our adversaries should be in no doubt of our ability to protect the UK and its interests, and that any deliberate attack on UK infrastructure would be met with an appropriate response.
Telecommunications Cables: Seas and Oceans Asked by: Lord Rogan (Ulster Unionist Party - Life peer) Wednesday 18th December 2024 Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Vallance of Balham on 3 December (HL Deb col 1035), how much commercial companies are paying to fund a ship to provide protection for undersea cables, and to whom this money is paid. Answered by Lord Vallance of Balham - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) Subsea telecoms cables are privately owned and operated. The cost of cable maintenance and repair is shared by companies contracting into zonal maintenance agreements to ensure a commercial repair vessel is on permanent standby. For cables serving the UK this is provided by the Atlantic Cable Maintenance Agreement. Companies pay an annual stipend for the repair service under this agreement, with the amount paid based on the length of the cables they own. When they require a repair, they will also pay to cover the cost of the ship for the duration of the repair.

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Telecommunications Cables: Seas and Oceans
Asked by: Earl Attlee (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Thursday 19th December 2024

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Vallance of Balham on 3 December (HL Deb cols 1033–1034), whether they have an agreed retaliation doctrine for the cutting of UK undersea cables.

Answered by Lord Coaker - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

The UK Government constantly monitors and regularly assesses the security of critical national infrastructure, including energy and telecommunications assets in the UK's Exclusive Economic Zone. This is a whole-of-Government effort involving multiple Departments, including the Ministry of Defence.

While it is not appropriate for us to discuss the specifics of response options, our adversaries should be in no doubt of our ability to protect the UK and its interests, and that any deliberate attack on UK infrastructure would be met with an appropriate response.

Telecommunications Cables: Seas and Oceans
Asked by: Lord Rogan (Ulster Unionist Party - Life peer)
Wednesday 18th December 2024

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Vallance of Balham on 3 December (HL Deb col 1035), how much commercial companies are paying to fund a ship to provide protection for undersea cables, and to whom this money is paid.

Answered by Lord Vallance of Balham - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

Subsea telecoms cables are privately owned and operated. The cost of cable maintenance and repair is shared by companies contracting into zonal maintenance agreements to ensure a commercial repair vessel is on permanent standby. For cables serving the UK this is provided by the Atlantic Cable Maintenance Agreement. Companies pay an annual stipend for the repair service under this agreement, with the amount paid based on the length of the cables they own. When they require a repair, they will also pay to cover the cost of the ship for the duration of the repair.