To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 27 October (HL2574), what assessment they have made of the financial impact of suspending prescription charges for 2022/23 on people living with sickle cell disease.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the (1) financial, and (2) health, impact of providing free prescriptions for patients with sickle cell disease.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 26 October (HL2576), what steps they are taking to raise awareness of pre-payment certificates for people living with sickle cell disease.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 26 October (HL2576), how many people with sickle cell disease (1) are not eligible for prescriptions, and (2) have purchased a pre-payment certificate in the last five years...
To ask His Majesty's Government whether there is any existing statutory barrier to staff seconded from Ofcom to the British Board of Film Classification to work on the implementation of the provisions of Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 if they are ...
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are under a statutory obligation to update the Guidance on Age-Verification Arrangements approved by the House of Lords on 11 December 2018 (HL Deb col 1307); and if so, how often they are obliged to update it.
To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to amending any aspects of the Guidance on Age-Verification Arrangements, approved by the House of Lords on 11 December 2018 (HL Deb col 1307), before commencement of the provisions in Par...
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are under a statutory obligation to update the Guidance from the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to the Age-Verification Regulator for Online Pornography, published in January 2018 and ...
To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to amending any aspects of the Guidance from the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to the Age-Verification Regulator for Online Pornography, published in January 201...
To ask His Majesty's Government how long after completion of the passage of the Online Safety Bill they would expect Ofcom to have the power to issue the first provisional notice of contravention under Part 5 of that Bill.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether Ofcom's roadmap to regulation for the Online Safety Bill ensures that the implementation period for Part 5 of that bill following passage of the legislation will be as short as poss...
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they expect the duties on user-to-user services created by the Online Safety Bill to apply when services are accessed via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and the service may not be able to know if the user is locate...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether it is possible for Internet Service Providers to block access to a website if a user is accessing it using (1) Domain Name System (DNS) over Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTP...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the rising cost of living on people with chronic conditions, such as sickle cell disease.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of a temporary suspension of NHS prescription charges on (1) patients, (2) the NHS, and (3) the economy, given the rising cost of living; and what plans they have, if any, to implement such a ...
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce free NHS prescriptions for medical conditions with existing health inequalities, such as sickle cell disease.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure the affordability of medication for people living with sickle cell disease.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia report No One's Listening: An Inquiry into the Avoidable Deaths and Failures of Care for Sickle Cell Patients in Secondary Care, published on 15...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to ensure the Urban Forest is preserved in its entirety as stipulated in the Deed of Dedication between the Millennium Commission and Sandwell Metropolitan Council.
To ask Her Majesty's Government which (1) body, or (2) bodies, took over the responsibilities of the Millennium Commission when it disbanded in 2006.