To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 4 September (HL2165), at what administrative level data on Accessible Information Standard compliance in pharmacies is collected; which local bodies, including Integrated Care Boards and NHS trusts, hold records on compliance; and whether the Department of...

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 4 September (HL2165), at what administrative level data on Accessible Information Standard compliance in pharmacies is collected; which local bodies, including Integrated Care Boards and NHS trusts, hold records on compliance; and whether the Department of...

To ask His Majesty's Government how NHS England and Integrated Care Boards monitor compliance with the Accessible Information Standard in (1) community pharmacies, and (2) hospital pharmacies, in particular with regard to provision of easy-read, pictorial, or simplified medication labels for patients with learning disabilities; and what data NHS England...

To ask His Majesty's Government how NHS England and Integrated Care Boards monitor compliance with the Accessible Information Standard in (1) community pharmacies, and (2) hospital pharmacies, in particular with regard to provision of easy-read, pictorial, or simplified medication labels for patients with learning disabilities; and what data NHS England...

Clause 64, amendment 82 negatived on division (3 to 8). Clause 64, amendment 83 negatived on division (3 to 8). Clause 64, amendment 230 negatived on division (4 to 7). Clause 64, amendment 254 negatived on division (4 to 8). Clause 65, amendment 85 negatived on division (4 to 8). Clause 65, amendment 223 negatived on division (3 to 8). Clause 66, amendment 87 negatived on division (4 to 8). Clause 68, amendment 88 negatived on division (3 to 7). Clause 68, amendment 89 negatived on division (3 to 7). Clause 68, amendment 90 negatived on division (4 to 7). Clause 68, amendment 91 negatived on division (4 to 7). Clause 68, amendment 203 negatived on division (4 to 8). Clause 68, amendment 204 negatived on division (4 to 8). Clauses 64 to 68 agreed to. Clause 69, amendments 175 to 184 agreed to. Clause 69, as amended, agreed to on division (10 to 3). Clause 71, amendment 146 negatived on division (5 to 8). Clause 71 agreed to on division (8 to 3). Clause 72, amendment 256 negatived on division (5 to 8). Clause 72, amendment 221 negatived on division (5 to 8). Clause 72, amendment 231 negatived on division (5 to 8). Clause 72 agreed to on division (8 to 5). Clause 74, amendment 99 negatived on division (5 to 8). Clause 75, amendment 271 agreed to on division (8 to 3). Clause 75, as amended, agreed to. Clauses 70, 73 to 74 and 76 to 79 agreed to. Committee adjourned. Written evidence reported to the House.

Clause 64, amendment 82 negatived on division (3 to 8). Clause 64, amendment 83 negatived on division (3 to 8). Clause 64, amendment 230 negatived on division (4 to 7). Clause 64, amendment 254 negatived on division (4 to 8). Clause 65, amendment 85 negatived on division (4 to 8)....

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to monitor progress on access to new NHS-approved drugs for blood cancer patients.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to monitor progress on access to new NHS-approved drugs for blood cancer patients.

Lords committee stage second day. Clause 2 under consideration. (Part 2 of 2).

Lords committee stage second day. Clause 2 under consideration. (Part 2 of 2).

Moved by

Lord Moylan

19: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, at end insert—

“30ZA Independent financial monitoring of public sector companies

(1) The Secretary of State must, within three months of the day on which the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024 comes into force, instruct an independent body to conduct monitoring...

Moved by

Lord Moylan

19: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, at end insert—

“30ZA Independent financial monitoring of public sector companies

(1) The Secretary of State must, within three months of the day on which the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024 comes into force, instruct an independent body to conduct monitoring...

My Lords, I suspect that this will be one of the shorter debates in our consideration of this Bill in Committee, but it is one of the most important. It will be short, I suspect, because this group is rather technical, but it has very great significance, not only for...

My Lords, I suspect that this will be one of the shorter debates in our consideration of this Bill in Committee, but it is one of the most important. It will be short, I suspect, because this group is rather technical, but it has very great significance, not only for...

My Lords, one of the clear attractions of the new system should be increased transparency. There should be no chance that the new authority would be able to hide behind commercial

confidentiality. One public body would make life very much easier in terms of national answerability. I do not agree...

My Lords, one of the clear attractions of the new system should be increased transparency. There should be no chance that the new authority would be able to hide behind commercial

confidentiality. One public body would make life very much easier in terms of national answerability. I do not agree...

First, I briefly note my intention to write to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, on his points about public investment that I did not manage to address on Monday. I also intend to address later the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, on Monday.

On fares, there...

First, I briefly note my intention to write to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, on his points about public investment that I did not manage to address on Monday. I also intend to address later the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, on Monday.

On fares, there...

I want just to make the point that, as the Minister well knows, the fare system is so complicated that, in practice, people have not been able to understand it adequately in order to make those judgments, and one of the Government’s aims, quite laudably, is to make it simpler....

I want just to make the point that, as the Minister well knows, the fare system is so complicated that, in practice, people have not been able to understand it adequately in order to make those judgments, and one of the Government’s aims, quite laudably, is to make it simpler....

I thank the noble Baroness for her intervention. Of course, she is absolutely right. The fare system is far too complex, whether it is regulated fares or unregulated fares. One of the primary purposes of bringing train operations into public ownership is to provide the basis of rationalising that fare...

I thank the noble Baroness for her intervention. Of course, she is absolutely right. The fare system is far too complex, whether it is regulated fares or unregulated fares. One of the primary purposes of bringing train operations into public ownership is to provide the basis of rationalising that fare...

My Lords, I may have expressed myself very poorly when I presented these amendments, but I think it is fair to say—I do not mean to sound overcritical—that the Minister has misconceived all of them, or at least the three that I spent some time on. So perhaps the House...

My Lords, I may have expressed myself very poorly when I presented these amendments, but I think it is fair to say—I do not mean to sound overcritical—that the Minister has misconceived all of them, or at least the three that I spent some time on. So perhaps the House...

Moved by

Lord Moylan

24: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, at end insert—

“30ZA Impact on open access operators

The Secretary of State must, within twelve months of the day on which the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024 comes into force, and annually thereafter, lay before Parliament a report on the...

Moved by

Lord Moylan

24: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, at end insert—

“30ZA Impact on open access operators

The Secretary of State must, within twelve months of the day on which the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024 comes into force, and annually thereafter, lay before Parliament a report on the...

My Lords, earlier in Committee we had a debate on the value of open access and I am not proposing to repeat that. But now that the noble Lord has drawn my attention to the biblical text Getting Britain Moving—which I understand is now the Government’s plan for the railways...

My Lords, earlier in Committee we had a debate on the value of open access and I am not proposing to repeat that. But now that the noble Lord has drawn my attention to the biblical text Getting Britain Moving—which I understand is now the Government’s plan for the railways...

My Lords, there are of course some excellent examples of open access operators and some very successful ones, but I am a bit sceptical. We have a Government who are so opposed to competition on the railways that even very good train operators, such as Greater Anglia, have to be...

My Lords, there are of course some excellent examples of open access operators and some very successful ones, but I am a bit sceptical. We have a Government who are so opposed to competition on the railways that even very good train operators, such as Greater Anglia, have to be...

The Bill before the House is specifically about the ownership of services currently operated under contract to the Secretary of State, Scottish Ministers or Welsh Ministers. Transferring and retaining these services in public ownership will not affect open access operators or prevent them running as they do now. It is...

The Bill before the House is specifically about the ownership of services currently operated under contract to the Secretary of State, Scottish Ministers or Welsh Ministers. Transferring and retaining these services in public ownership will not affect open access operators or prevent them running as they do now. It is...

My Lords, once again I am being deflected more than answered. I did not suggest that existing open access operators were going to be closed down. In fact, it says quite explicitly in the biblical document Getting Britain Moving that current

“independent operators (such as Hull Trains and Lumo) … will...

My Lords, once again I am being deflected more than answered. I did not suggest that existing open access operators were going to be closed down. In fact, it says quite explicitly in the biblical document Getting Britain Moving that current

“independent operators (such as Hull Trains and Lumo) … will...