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Government Information Communication Technology Projects

I recently received a letter from the NHS asking me to acknowledge that information about myself will be able to be made available through the new technology, should I have any accident throughout the United Kingdom. But will my noble friend indeed use the government information and communication technology to communicate to the wider public and Members on the Benches opposite just how many successful government projects have come in either on-budget or under-budget in the past 13 years?

Asked by

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

8 April 2010

Reference

718 c1656

House

House of Lords

Health: Diabetes

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the treatment of diabetes with the drug Avandia.

Asked by

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

3079; 718 c406-7WA

House

House of Lords

Health: Diabetes

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many working days have been lost due to diabetes and its effects in each of the past five years.

Asked by

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

3020; 718 c404-5WA

House

House of Lords

Health: Diabetes

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have undertaken a cost-benefit analysis of the effects of the qualifying age range of 40 to 74 for the NHSVascular Risk Assessment programme on the level of risk of diabetes of (a) persons over 25, and (b) black, Asian and minority ethnic persons...

Asked by

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

6 April 2010

The National Health Service Health Check programme (formerly vascular checks) is a universal and systematic programme for everyone between the ages of 40 and 74 that will assess an individual's risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and diabetes and will support people to reduce or manage that risk through individually tailored advice. The programme was developed on the basis of advice from the National Screening Committee. It advised that, on current evidence, there was not a case for whole population screening for diabetes. However, there was a good case for targeted screening for diabetes in the wider context of cardiovascular risk assessment. The department undertook modelling on a vascular risk assessment and management programme, which included diabetes to establish whether such an approach would be cost and clinically effective as well as identifying the optimal starting age. Both the technical consultation on the modelling and the impact assessment are available in the House of Lords Library. Three different starting ages for the programme (40, 45 and 50) were modelled. The age range of 40 to 74 for everyone was found to be both clinically and cost effective. In taking the decision about the age range with which to launch the programme, the department took further advice from the National Screening Committee and leading United Kingdom diabetologists. Their view was that, given the current state of knowledge, age 40 represented a good starting point for combined diabetes, cardio-vascular and kidney disease risk assessment. The content and age parameters of the programme will be kept under review. We understand that some primary care trusts maybe inviting people into the programme who are under 40 years of age, for example, in areas that have significant South Asian communities who are generally at higher risk of vascular disease including diabetes. However, this scenario was not tested through the modelling, and so we have no evidence of its clinical or cost effectiveness.

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

3022; 718 c405-6WA

House

House of Lords

Health: Diabetes

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost of diabetes and its effects.

Asked by

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

6 April 2010

Diabetes is a complex life-long condition that can affect every part of the body. There are a number of associated complications with the condition which makes it difficult to calculate the exact total cost to the National Health Service. The department's programme budget figures indicate £1.26 billion of departmental gross expenditure in England in 2008-09 was spent on diabetes. This figure does not include spending on prevention or on general medical services or primary medical services.

£000s
	Diabetes expenditure	DH gross expenditure	Diabetes as a proportion of gross expenditure
2004-05	687,402	71,922,179	1.0%
2005-06	866,000	80,185,241	1.1%
2006-07	1,043,021	84,193,209	1.2%
2007-08	1,151,183	93,183,426	1.2%
2008-09	1,262,066	96,814,987	1.3%

In England in 2008, according to the NHS Business Services Authority, about £595 million for diabetes-related items was spent on prescriptions dispensed in the community; ie by community pharmacists and appliance contractors, dispensing doctors, and prescriptions submitted by prescribing doctors for items personally administered. Also included are prescriptions written in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man but dispensed in England.

Drug group	NIC(£000s)
Insulins	285,764.0
Antidiabetic drugs	165,323.6
Treatment of hypoglycaemia	3,092.1
Diagnostic and monitoring agents	139,147.6
Total	593,327.3

(Net Ingredient Cost (NIC) NIC is the basic cost of a drug. It does not take account of discounts, dispensing costs, fees or prescription charges income). Further expenditure will have taken place throughout the NHS system that is not possible to identify. Diabetes UK estimates spending in the United Kingdom is approximately £9 billion across the NHS.

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

3021; 718 c405WA

House

House of Lords

Banking: Government Support

Is my noble friend describing a win-win situation, in so far as when we come to sell some of these now state-owned banks back to the private sector, there is the prospect of making a profit? That wholly justifies the Government’s swift and determined intervention during the financial crisis to buy in those banks in order to save the banking system.

Asked by

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

30 March 2010

Reference

718 c1283-4

House

House of Lords

EU: Internal Market Scoreboard

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the operation of the European Union internal market in the light of the Internal Market Scoreboard published in March; and what their priorities are for further developing the internal market.

Asked by

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 March 2010

Reference

3080; 718 c318WA

House

House of Lords

Health: Bispenol Exposure

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Darzi of Denham on 15 June 2009 (WA 178–9), what assessment they have made of the United States Food and Drug Administration's recent assessment of the potential effects of bisphenol A (BPA) on the brain, behaviour and prostate...

Asked by

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

24 March 2010

Reference

2879; 718 c296WA

House

House of Lords

Firearms: Imitation Weapons

My Lords, does my noble friend share my concern that on the internet it is very easy for under-18 year-olds to buy—and buy cheaply—imitation firearms which are scarcely indistinguishable from real weapons, despite the requirement of the 2006 Act that such imitations are made from 51 per cent plastic? Does he also share my concern that many of these weapons can be activated into real weapons, as was documented in the case before the courts in Reading in 2004, where 51 shootings had resulted in eight murders involving the use of these converted imitation firearms?

Asked by

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 2010

Reference

718 c840

House

House of Lords

Firearms: Imitation Weapons

Will my noble friend praise the work of the police in places such as Southwark, and indeed Chester, where my wife witnessed demonstrations by the police of the differences in these imitation guns? Will he encourage not only further demonstrations to young people, but also the successful amnesties which have drawn many of these imitation firearms off the street?

Asked by

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 2010

Reference

718 c842

House

House of Lords

Firearms: Imitation Weapons

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the threat posed by the continuing availability of ball-bearing guns closely resembling real weapons.

Asked by

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Oral questions - Lead

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 2010

Reference

718 c840

House

House of Lords

Building Regulations (Amendment) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I beg to move that this Report be now received. In so doing I thank my noble friend the Minister and all the other parties for finding consensus on this issue, which I will bring back to this House at a later date. Report received.

Member

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

22 March 2010

Reference

718 c757

House

House of Lords

Building Regulations (Amendment) Bill [HL]

Building Regulations (Amendment) Bill (HL). Lords report stage (formal).

Lead member

Lord Harrison

Type

Legislative formal proceedings

Date

22 March 2010

Reference

718 c757

House

House of Lords

British Humanist Association: Reports

My Lords, with a general election in which reform of this House will undoubtedly feature only a few weeks away, discussion of the two British Humanist Association reports published in 2007 is pertinent. The first, entitled Quality and Equality: Human Rights, Public Services and Religious Organisations, provides us with a...

Member

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

18 March 2010

Reference

718 c674-7

House

House of Lords

British Humanist Association: Reports

Moved By To call attention to the British Humanist Association’s reports Quality and Equality: Human Rights, Public Services and Religious Organisations and The Case for Secularism: A Neutral State in an Open Society; and to move for papers.

Member

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

18 March 2010

Reference

718 c674

House

House of Lords

British Humanist Association: Reports

I am afraid I will not accept any intervention because this is a timed debate and I prefer to use my time to say what I have to say. It provides fairness to those who might otherwise have to bend their strongly-held views to those who hold very separate and...

Member

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

18 March 2010

Reference

718 c677

House

House of Lords

British Humanist Association: Reports

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for his admirable summing up. We shall certainly look at that. In the past I have described myself as a member of God’s loyal opposition. I thank my colleagues who have contributed to God’s loyal opposition in expanding this debate. I...

Member

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

18 March 2010

Reference

718 c711

House

House of Lords

British Humanist Association: Reports

Lords debate on motion to call attention to the British Humanist Association's reports Quality and Equality: Human Rights, Public Services and Religious Organisations and The Case for Secularism: A Neutral State in an Open Society. Motion withdrawn.

Lead member

Lord Harrison

Answering member

Lord McKenzie of Luton

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Type

Debates

Date

18 March 2010

Reference

718 c674-711

House

House of Lords

Building Regulations (Amendment) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Best, for introducing his amendment and for helping me to describe the nature of the Bill; and also for the constructive conversations that we have had. It is not my intention to rehearse another Second Reading speech here, but perhaps...

Member

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

5 March 2010

Reference

717 c1660-1

House

House of Lords

Building Regulations (Amendment) Bill [HL]

Building Regulations (Amendment) Bill (HL). Lords committee stage. Clauses 1 and 2 agreed to. Bill reported without amendment.

Lead member

Lord Harrison

Answering member

Lord McKenzie of Luton

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Type

Committee of the Whole House (HL); Debates on bills

Date

5 March 2010

Reference

717 c1659-65

House

House of Lords

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