Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure the economic stability of the Falkland Islands and other Overseas Territories when responding to US tariffs.

Answered by Stephen Doughty - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

HM Government is working closely with the governments of the Falkland Islands and other affected Overseas Territories to understand the impact of the US tariffs, including facilitating access to UK Department for Business and Trade expertise. I spoke with the Chair of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly shortly after the tariffs were announced where I offered our full support. We continue to work closely with the Governments of the Overseas Territories to support their economic development.

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he has taken to assess the potential impact of US tariffs on the Falkland Islands and other Overseas Territories.

Answered by Stephen Doughty - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

HM Government is working closely with the governments of the Falkland Islands and other affected Overseas Territories to understand the impact of the US tariffs, including facilitating access to UK Department for Business and Trade expertise. I spoke with the Chair of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly shortly after the tariffs were announced where I offered our full support. We continue to work closely with the Governments of the Overseas Territories to support their economic development.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to help improve levels of public understanding of how (a) personal medical data can be and (b) people can opt out of having their data used for health research.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Ensuring public understanding of the use of health data is critical to building trust. The Department and NHS England co-fund an independent organisation called Understanding Patient Data which provides objective information about how patient data is used, including for research, via the development of creative, accessible resources.

NHS England also publishes a breadth of transparency information including a website for the National Data Opt-out, which provides information on how people can opt-out, and a dashboard indicating opt-out rates. Links to opt out choices are also available on the NHS App.

The Department and NHS England are conducting large-scale public engagement on health data, which includes discussing the national Data Opt-out, and what choices people would like to make about how their data is used. This will help to inform future policy on opt-outs.

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to tackle health misinformation.

Answered by Feryal Clark - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

Under the Online Safety Act, companies must remove illegal health mis- and disinformation content if they become aware of it on their services. This includes content amounting to the False Communications offence, capturing communications where the sender knows information to be false but sends it intending to cause significant harm: such as encouraging drinking bleach to cure flu. If a service is likely to be accessed by children, it will have to protect them from encountering harmful health mis- and disinformation.

The Act will also require large platforms to remove health misinformation if it’s prohibited in their terms of service.

Found: Answered by : Andrew Gwynne | Department of Health and Social Care The Government’s responsibility