Information between 22nd May 2024 - 1st June 2024
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Parliamentary Debates |
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Valedictory Debate
114 speeches (57,382 words) Friday 24th May 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Alok Sharma (Con - Reading West) Serving as a Member of Parliament is a rare privilege, and I will always carry a piece of this place - Link to Speech |
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
137 speeches (23,203 words) Report stage Friday 24th May 2024 - Lords Chamber Mentions: 1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) It is rare that something as arcane as property law could excite such passion, but we need less passion - Link to Speech |
NHS
65 speeches (9,780 words) Thursday 23rd May 2024 - Commons Chamber Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Let the record reflect this rare moment of agreement between the right hon. Gentleman and me. - Link to Speech |
Immigration and Asylum
5 speeches (2,950 words) 1st reading Wednesday 22nd May 2024 - Commons Chamber Mentions: 1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) circumstances, the UNHCR operates a resettlement policy, but it says itself that resettlement is “the rare - Link to Speech |
E-scooters: Deaths and Serious Injuries
22 speeches (7,968 words) Wednesday 22nd May 2024 - Westminster Hall Department for Transport Mentions: 1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) District Council, we introduced one of the e-scooter trials, which provided rural communities with a rare - Link to Speech |
Prison Media Bill
19 speeches (4,286 words) Committee stage Wednesday 22nd May 2024 - Public Bill Committees Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) It is rare that one gets the opportunity to thank one’s private office.Question put and agreed to.Bill - Link to Speech |
Holocaust Memorial Bill
133 speeches (27,169 words) Committee of the whole House Wednesday 22nd May 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Mentions: 1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) To this day, local schoolchildren and even younger children continue to take advantage of this rare green - Link to Speech |
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders
19 speeches (5,082 words) Wednesday 22nd May 2024 - Westminster Hall Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) Twelve types of EDS are rare and can be genetically tested, but—this is a really important point—there - Link to Speech 2: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) am very grateful to her for putting that important point on the record.The 13th type of EDS is not rare - Link to Speech 3: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) First, hEDS is a common type of EDS —it is the most prevalent—and is therefore not covered by the rare - Link to Speech 4: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) NHS England commissions a national diagnostic service for certain rare types of EDS that can be diagnosed - Link to Speech |
Oral Answers to Questions
131 speeches (10,186 words) Wednesday 22nd May 2024 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) In the rare number of cases where individuals have not appropriately informed the DWP about a change - Link to Speech |
Select Committee Documents |
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Friday 31st May 2024
Formal Minutes - Formal minutes Session 2022-23 (May 2022 to November 2023) Foreign Affairs Committee Found: Critical minerals Guillaume Pitron, Journalist and Author of 'The Rare Metals War' and Henry Sanderson |
Wednesday 29th May 2024
Formal Minutes - Formal Minutes 2023-24: List of closed petitions Petitions Committee Found: statutory behaviour and discipline policy that applies to all schools 14 Commit to a 'Childhood Rare |
Wednesday 29th May 2024
Formal Minutes - Formal Minutes of Session 2023–24 Science, Innovation and Technology Committee Found: My spouse, Angela Metcalfe, is Chief Executive of Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) UK, a rare disease charity |
Wednesday 29th May 2024
Formal Minutes - Formal Minutes: Session 2022-23 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Found: Environmental Land Management S chemes: progress update Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation [EPU0001] Rare |
Tuesday 28th May 2024
Report - First Report - The work of the Transport Committee in the 2019 Parliament Transport Committee Found: change of mindset, so that operators and others act on the basis that failures must be vanishingly rare |
Tuesday 28th May 2024
Correspondence - Chair to Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on Future Cancer 23.05.24 Health and Social Care Committee Found: patients with the least survivable cancers, including in the case of his speciality of glioblastoma, a rare |
Tuesday 28th May 2024
Written Evidence - Startup Coalition AIG0021 - Use of artificial intelligence in government Public Accounts Committee Found: are less able to put their innovations in stasis and wait — and are thus more likely to prefer the rare |
Tuesday 28th May 2024
Written Evidence - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health LTW0030 - NHS England’s modelling for the Long-Term Workforce Plan Public Accounts Committee Found: in the CYP population.xvi 4.8Increases in the numbers of children with chronic conditions and rare |
Tuesday 28th May 2024
Written Evidence - The Bar Council BLCC0004 - Update on reducing the backlog in Criminal Courts Public Accounts Committee Found: Historically, such events were very rare indeed and normally due to sudden ill-health or similar unavoidable |
Friday 24th May 2024
Written Evidence - The Rt Hon the Lord Blencathra PC FDO0118 - Food, Diet and Obesity Food, Diet and Obesity - Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Found: Foodborne deaths from Shigella, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, adenovirus, astrovirus and rotovirus are all rare |
Friday 24th May 2024
Written Evidence - Ruchika Joshi GAI0133 - Governance of artificial intelligence (AI) Governance of artificial intelligence (AI) - Science, Innovation and Technology Committee Found: When a rare but extreme AI failure does occur randomly , firms’ net revenue may be affected by greater |
Friday 24th May 2024
Report - Sixth Report - Enabling sustainable electrification of the economy Environmental Audit Committee Found: For example, 60% of all rare earth elements are currently located in the territory of the People’s Republic |
Friday 24th May 2024
Written Evidence - Roxburgh Production Fund FIL0143 - British film and high-end television British Film and High-End Television - Culture, Media and Sport Committee Found: pointed out that these producers are “cocktail producers” and points out that legit producers are rare |
Thursday 23rd May 2024
Written Evidence - Andrew Jolley FDO0099 - Food, Diet and Obesity Food, Diet and Obesity - Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Found: There are the rare cases where schools aren’t as proactive as they could be, but these are generally |
Thursday 23rd May 2024
Written Evidence - British Dietetic Association (BDA) Paediatric Specialist Group FDO0101 - Food, Diet and Obesity Food, Diet and Obesity - Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Found: factors include Cushing’s disease, hypothyroidism, concomitant drug use such as glucocorticoids, and rare |
Thursday 23rd May 2024
Written Evidence - Gary Wilson Raising Boys' Achievement BAE0025 - Boys’ attainment and engagement in education Boys’ attainment and engagement in education - Education Committee Found: incorporating pupil voice to negotiate change Reward systems that really work well are fairly rare |
Thursday 23rd May 2024
Written Evidence - University of Oxford BBC0005 - Future funding of the BBC World Service Future funding of the BBC World Service - International Development Committee Found: In countries where freedom of the press is limited, such as Russia and China, the BBCWS offers a rare |
Thursday 23rd May 2024
Written Evidence - Al Arabiya BBC0006 - Future funding of the BBC World Service Future funding of the BBC World Service - International Development Committee Found: original journalism, done in-market by trained investigative journalists is becoming increasingly rare |
Thursday 23rd May 2024
Written Evidence - GrowTraffic Ltd BBC0004 - Future funding of the BBC World Service Future funding of the BBC World Service - International Development Committee Found: influence and prestige. 7.In regions with limited press freedom, the BBC World Service serves as a rare |
Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Oral Evidence - Guide dogs, Assistance Dogs UK, and Dogs for Good Women and Equalities Committee Found: in Northern Ireland, and we have seen that it has much lower levels of access refusal—it is really rare |
Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Oral Evidence - UK Finance, and Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) Treasury Committee Found: It is very rare that we find people reporting those who have not self-reported themselves. |
Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Oral Evidence - HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest, Post Office, Cash Access UK, and LINK Access to High Street Banking in Wales - Welsh Affairs Committee Found: We can get that fixed straight away, but I would hope that is very rare and due to some particular |
Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Oral Evidence - Network Rail and Great British Railways Transition Team, and Network Rail Transport Committee Found: It must be quite rare for a Select Committee to have a chair and a chief executive advocating their |
Tuesday 21st May 2024
Oral Evidence - INEOS, LanzaTech UK, and Peel Hunt Engineering biology - Science and Technology Committee (Lords) Found: INEOS is a rare example of a company that has massive scale. |
Written Answers |
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Drinking Water and Sewage: Standards
Asked by: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Conservative - Life peer) Friday 24th May 2024 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address public concerns concerning (1) the quality of drinking water, and (2) the discharge of untreated waste into the sea, rivers and lakes. Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) It is important not to conflate the quality of raw water and drinking water. Drinking water quality in England is of an exceptionally high standard and among the best in the world. Compliance with drinking water quality standards has been consistently high for a number of years, with a rate of 99.97% in 2022.
The Government published the Plan for Water in April 2023 – our comprehensive strategy for managing our water environment. It brings together the significant steps we have already taken with a suite of new policy actions. It aims to change the way that we manage water, improve water quality, and continue to secure our water supply through increased investment, stronger regulation and enforcement.
The Government is clear that the amount of sewage discharged into our waters is unacceptable. The Storm Overflow Discharge Reduction Plan (SODRP) sets out stringent targets to protect people and the environment; and prioritises for early action areas used for bathing, for growing shellfish or with high ecological importance. The SODRP will drive £60 billion investment between now and 2050 to improve storm overflows, the largest infrastructure programme in water company history.
We will not let companies get away with illegal activity and where breaches are found, the regulators will not hesitate to hold companies to account.
The recent cryptosporidium outbreak in Brixham is extremely unfortunate and it is a horrific experience for the people who have been made ill. The Drinking Water Inspectorate is actively investigating the cause, extent and actions of the company, and will take actions including enforcement action in due course to prevent this type of event happening again.
Thankfully, these events are very rare, and elsewhere consumers should continue to have confidence in their high quality drinking water. |
Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central) Friday 24th May 2024 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will undertake a study on trends in alcohol use among young people. Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) NHS England holds several data sources covering alcohol use for people aged under 18 years old, including the Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People survey. This data is collected every two years, and the next survey report is due Autumn 2024, and will include 2023 survey data. The guidance from England’s Chief Medical Officer for healthcare professionals is clear, an alcohol-free childhood is the healthiest and best option. The Department promotes this through online platforms such as the NHS.UK website, and the Talk to FRANK online resource. Local authorities promote these guidelines as part of their public health duties. Alcohol or drug dependence is rare in children and young people under the age of 18 years old, although they may be drinking problematically. For those that do need support, the Department has allocated £532 million of additional funding through to 2024/25 to support improvements in treatment, including facilitating 5,000 more young people into age-appropriate alcohol and drug treatment. |
Drugs: Misuse
Asked by: George Galloway (Workers Party of Britain - Rochdale) Thursday 23rd May 2024 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help tackle teenage drug addiction. Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) Alcohol or drug dependence is rare in young people under the age of 18 years old, although they may be drinking problematically. The most effective and sustainable approach to reducing alcohol and drug harms in young people is by giving them the best start in life, the best education possible, and keeping them safe, well, and happy. Statutory guidance on relationships, sex, and health education requires all primary and secondary school pupils to be taught the key facts and risks of alcohol and drug use, as well as how to manage influences and pressure, and keep themselves healthy and safe. The Department has worked with the PSHE Association to develop the lesson plans on alcohol and is currently commissioning an update of the resources, to be published later this year. Current resources are available at the following link: https://pshe-association.org.uk/drugeducation Through the cross-Government Drug Strategy, the Department has allocated £532 million of additional funding through to 2024/25, to support improvements in alcohol and drug treatment, including facilitating 5,000 more young people into age-appropriate treatment by 2024/25. Local authorities can also invest their allocation in options from a menu of interventions, some of which include strengthening the services available to young people and families. The Government also has an information and advice service called Talk to FRANK, which aims to reduce alcohol and drug use and its harms by providing awareness to young people, parents and concerned others: |
Cycleways: Visual Impairment
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley) Thursday 23rd May 2024 Question to the Department for Transport: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that cycle lanes are not a danger to (a) visually impaired and (b) blind pedestrians. Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) Design guidance for cycle infrastructure issued by the Department for Transport sets out that there should be separation of pedestrian and cycle infrastructure wherever possible. This guidance was developed in collaboration with stakeholders, including disability groups.
The Department for Transport established Active Travel England (ATE) to up-skill local authorities, enabling the installation of changes that are well thought through for all modes of travel, and disseminating best practice. As part of this, ATE has recently published a suite of design assistance and scheme review tools to support the development of accessible active travel schemes. The agency has also commissioned West Midlands Combined Authority to undertake research into crossing detection systems.
ATE will continue to work with organisations representing blind and visually impaired people to improve standards and further reduce the rare occasions that collisions occur. |
Magnets: Supply Chains
Asked by: Pauline Latham (Conservative - Mid Derbyshire) Thursday 23rd May 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to encourage rare earth magnet producers to the UK. Answered by Alan Mak - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) (jointly with the Cabinet Office) It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. |
Department Publications - Transparency |
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Thursday 30th May 2024
Ministry of Defence Source Page: FOI responses published by MOD: week commencing 27 May 2024 Document: (PDF) Found: These are rare in the recruit age group although in theory variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease could |
Thursday 30th May 2024
Ministry of Defence Source Page: FOI responses published by MOD: week commencing 27 May 2024 Document: (PDF) Found: Social Media published an image of the outgoing commander being taken out in a Koenigsegg Regera, a rare |
Department Publications - Policy and Engagement |
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Wednesday 29th May 2024
HM Treasury Source Page: Treasury Minutes progress report – May 2024 Document: (PDF) Found: strategies during that time but examples of successful digital transformation of services at scale are rare |
Wednesday 29th May 2024
HM Treasury Source Page: Treasury Minutes progress report – May 2024 Document: (PDF) Found: strategies during that time but examples of successful digital transformation of services at scale are rare |
Department Publications - Guidance |
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Friday 24th May 2024
Cabinet Office Source Page: Procurement Act 2023 guidance documents - Define phase Document: (PDF) Found: Although these cases may be rare, a test of reasonable separability will also be used to guide decisions |
Thursday 23rd May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme: expanded offer for 2024 Document: (PDF) Found: aim is that at least 50% of the grazing livestock units (GLU) on sensitive grassland habitats are rare |
Thursday 23rd May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: Countryside hedgerow protection: removing hedgerows Document: Countryside hedgerow protection: removing hedgerows (webpage) Found: listed in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 contains species that are endangered, vulnerable and rare |
Department Publications - Policy paper |
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Thursday 23rd May 2024
Ministry of Justice Source Page: Thematic review of quality of work undertaken with women Document: the quality of work undertaken with women : A joint inspection by HM Inspectorate of Probation and HM Inspectorate of Prisons. (PDF) Found: Unfortunate ly, these models are rare . |
Non-Departmental Publications - Guidance and Regulation |
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May. 31 2024
Environment Agency Source Page: NW10 6PW, Colt Data Centre Services UK Limited: environmental permit issued – EPR/DP3107LF/A001 Document: (PDF) Guidance and Regulation Found: A site wide failure is considered extremely rare as it would require a catastrophic regional failure |
May. 29 2024
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Source Page: Topical corticosteroids and withdrawal reactions Document: Topical corticosteroids and withdrawal reactions (PDF) Guidance and Regulation Found: It is not currently known how common these reactions are, however they are thought to be rare . |
May. 29 2024
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Source Page: Topical corticosteroids and withdrawal reactions Document: Topical corticosteroids and withdrawal reactions (webpage) Guidance and Regulation Found: It is not currently known how common these reactions are, however they are thought to be rare. |
Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications |
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May. 28 2024
Employment Appeal Tribunal Source Page: First Greater Western Ltd v Mr AM Moussa: [2024] EAT 82 Document: First Greater Western Ltd v Mr AM Moussa: [2024] EAT 82 (PDF) News and Communications Found: Only in rare cases will causation will be established in the manner found in Jhuti , where the employer |
May. 24 2024
Coal Authority Source Page: Next phase of work to reduce metal mine pollution due to start Document: Next phase of work to reduce metal mine pollution due to start (webpage) News and Communications Found: It will also bring a boost to biodiversity by the creation of rare calaminarian grassland habitats – |
May. 23 2024
UK Health Security Agency Source Page: VDEC rapidly develops an immunoassay for Mpox during the 2022 global outbreak Document: VDEC rapidly develops an immunoassay for Mpox during the 2022 global outbreak (webpage) News and Communications Found: Throughout this time, the collaboration with the UKHSA’s Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL |
Non-Departmental Publications - Open consultation |
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May. 24 2024
Competition and Markets Authority Source Page: Consultation on digital markets competition regime guidance Document: (PDF) Open consultation Found: the CMA’s acceptance of a commitment once a conduct investigation has been launched will likely be rare |
Non-Departmental Publications - Policy and Engagement |
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May. 23 2024
HM Prison and Probation Service Source Page: Thematic review of quality of work undertaken with women Document: the quality of work undertaken with women : A joint inspection by HM Inspectorate of Probation and HM Inspectorate of Prisons. (PDF) Policy and Engagement Found: Unfortunate ly, these models are rare . |
Non-Departmental Publications - Statistics |
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May. 23 2024
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales Source Page: Pre-sentence reports in the youth justice system Document: (PDF) Statistics Found: copy and paste errors (e.g. the wrong name or the child’s pronoun changes) but this is considered rare |
May. 23 2024
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales Source Page: Pre-sentence reports in the youth justice system Document: (webpage) Statistics Found: noticed copy and paste errors (e.g. the wrong name or the child’s pronoun changes) but this is considered rare |
Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency |
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May. 23 2024
Rail Accident Investigation Branch Source Page: RAIB: Annual Report 2023 (published 2024) Document: (PDF) Transparency Found: lessons from accidents have driven safety improvements which have in turn made such events ever more rare |
Scottish Select Committee Publications |
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Wednesday 29th May 2024
Correspondence - Letter from Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy, 29 May 2024 Publication of the Scottish Nitrogen Balance sheet Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Found: The use of fertilisers in forestry is now very rare, particularly nitrogen based ones. |
Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Correspondence - Letter from Iain Munro, Chief Executive, Creative Scotland providing an update in relation to Creative Scotland Funding Project Rein, 22 May 2024 Creative Scotland Funding Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee Found: This is a rare and highly un usual set of circumstanc es and I fully appreciate the public interest |
Scottish Parliamentary Debates |
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New Petitions
11 speeches (11,544 words) Wednesday 29th May 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: Carlaw, Jackson (Con - Eastwood) concerned about this issue.The Scottish Government’s response to the petition acknowledges that, on rare - Link to Speech |
Wood-burning Stoves and Direct Emission Heating (Rural and Island Communities)
59 speeches (60,082 words) Wednesday 29th May 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) energy demand for heating in all new homes will be very low, which will further reduce the already rare - Link to Speech |
Scottish Child Payment
75 speeches (67,987 words) Thursday 23rd May 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: None To follow on from what Danny Dorling said, this is a very rare opportunity within social security policy - Link to Speech |
Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
119 speeches (58,477 words) Thursday 23rd May 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: None those processes deliver outcomes most of the time, or a significant proportion of the time.It is the rare - Link to Speech |
National Lyme Disease Awareness Month
20 speeches (40,071 words) Wednesday 22nd May 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Torrance, David (SNP - Kirkcaldy) don’t.I have now found a tick-control collar that seems to work perfectly for him, so it is now very rare - Link to Speech |
Scottish Languages Bill: Stage 1
185 speeches (92,693 words) Wednesday 22nd May 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: Forbes, Kate (SNP - Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) It is incredibly rare to be able to teach maths in Gaelic, but she may not be using all her skills because - Link to Speech |
Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
444 speeches (241,036 words) Tuesday 21st May 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: Lennon, Monica (Lab - Central Scotland) interest in the issue—recognises the particular challenges that face people in tenement housing, not on a rare - Link to Speech |
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
120 speeches (60,096 words) Tuesday 21st May 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: None of sight, out of mind and out of fashion for the generation that is growing up now and to make it as rare - Link to Speech |