Covid-19: Ireland

Debate between Viscount Younger of Leckie and Baroness Crawley

Wednesday 20th May 2020 Lords Chamber

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

I cannot give the noble Lord specific details, but I can tell him that there are extremely close and regular links between the CMOs in all four nations. I am certain that these discussions will come up regularly. As I said, contact tracing within the four nations is incredibly important in terms of getting it right and managing it effectively.

[Baroness Crawley (Lab)]

Can the Minister say what monitoring and follow-up has been made of the working of the memorandum of understanding signed on 7 April between the Irish Government and the First Minister of Northern Ireland so that both Governments adopt similar approaches to Covid, as many noble Lords have mentioned, and therefore assist cross-border industries?

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

The noble Baroness is right that there is this memorandum of understanding. Health officials both north and south of the border are working closely together with the sole aim of making sure that there is a co-ordinated approach to tackling this virus.

Product Recall: Tumble Driers

Debate between Viscount Younger of Leckie and Baroness Crawley

Wednesday 18th October 2017 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Crawley (Lab)]

My Lords, does the Minister agree that a register of injuries arising from unsafe products would be an essential intelligence resource, especially when so many products are delivered via the internet, directly to people’s homes? What plans have the Government to create such a national injuries database?

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

The noble Baroness makes a good point, and that indeed is part of our thinking and could be part of the national resourcing to increase the capability for improving consumer monitoring. We already have a GOV.UK website up and running. I do not believe that site is capable of allowing a database, but the noble Baroness makes a good point.