[37] In 2020, he again raised the issue in the House, with new speaker Lindsay Hoyle expressing sympathy with the need for reform. Training dogs is important to help them learn to behave appropriately and to make it easier to keep them under control. Policies that were of particular personal interest included the introduction of payment by results, restorative justice and work in prisons. To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made on whether online content that is considered to be blasphemous would fall within the remit of lawful but harmful content as defined within the Online Safety Bill. The Home Office works with the Food Standards Agency on the issue of CBD products, given our respective responsibilities for the regulation of controlled drugs and novel foods. Crispin Blunt, Self: The Sunday Programme. The Home Office publishes data on the number of asylum applications received by the UK in the chapter How many people do we grant asylum or protection to? in the quarterly Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release. A government spokesman said a replacement for the panel, which was set up under Theresa May's premiership, "will be set out in due course". At the 1997 general election, Blunt was elected to Parliament as Member for Reigate in Surrey, replacing the long-serving strongly Eurosceptic MP Sir George Gardiner, who had been deselected by the local Conservative Party. Hours: approx. We will keep this under review. The net amount spent on legal costs in relation to the Nuclear Test Veterans Group Litigation known as AB and Ors v Ministry of Defence is 786,939.48. He enjoyed the action-oriented stuntwork, touring New Zealand, Prague, Slovenia, Poland, and Czech Republic within seven months of shooting. Hours: 45 mins. [21] Achieving Firsts in all three Parts of the Tripos, Keynes graduated with a Triple First Class Honours BA degree in Middle Eastern Studies (Arabic and Persian) in June 2014. The option of online voting was removed, and a number of MPs may have been unable to vote because they were not physically able to attend. Ministers continue to take a close interest in any new evidence relating to controlled drugs and they would seek expert advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs before making any amendments to the 2001 Regulations. The codes of practice are kept under review and updated in line with legislative developments and changes in animal welfare practice. The Ministry of Justice has published information on immediate custodial sentences for specific offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, in England and Wales, up to December 2020, in the Principal Offence Proceedings and Outcomes by Home Office Offence Code data tool, available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987731/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2020.xlsx. To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 3.21 of the 2019 voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing and access, when NICE will review the process and methods for the highly specialised technology evaluation programme; and what methodology will be used in that review. The assessment found that county lines continue to be at the forefront of drug supply nationally and have evolved in response to environmental changes. [52][53] He also promoted connect2earth, an online community run by World Wide Fund for Nature. While there are many different types of HPV, the screening programme in England uses tests to detect for HPV 16, 18 and several other high-risk HPV types. We have no current plans to deprioritise any aspects of our approach to tackling drug misuse, but we will continue to monitor and evaluate our drug misuse programmes across Government to learn what is most effective and inform future spending decisions. However, medicines based on psilocybin have not yet been licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) which would address safety, quality and efficacy concerns. We have started work on a new ERC Strategy to guide and re-energise the work of the ERC, and are currently working on an ERC statement that calls on all governments to limit the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic on people identified based on real or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or sex characteristics. The Home Office works closely with the Department for Education to tackle youth violence. We are in the process of considering their findings and the Government will respond in due course. The UK's approach to making public statements in cases of attacks on LGBT+ defenders is always informed by advice from civil society groups on the ground. Faith schools are allowed to give priority to children of their faith where they are oversubscribed. 3.2 billion of additional funding was provided to local authorities to enable them to respond to Covid-19 pressures across the services they deliver. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) regularly provides advice on substances and their appropriate control status, and these are published on the gov.uk website. The Bill makes clear the importance of ensuring the UK is an attractive place to bring new products to market and conduct clinical trials, specifying that before making any regulations under the Bill, the Secretary of State must consider this point. His constituency, Reigate, sits within Townsends jurisdiction as PCC. To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of recognising Humanist Marriages in law following the 2014 Ministry of Justice review into marriages by non-religious belief organisations and the 2020 High Court ruling that a failure to recognise humanist marriages is discriminatory. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended 11 topics for access via a Managed Access Agreement (MAA) in 2019/20 to date. Crispin resigned this position in May 2003 and served again on the Defence Select Committee from December 2003 to October 2004, when Crispin returned to the Conservative front bench as an Opposition Whip under Michael Howard. To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, to specify which legal duty the Ministry of Defence spokesman is referring to in his remark to the BBC on 2nd November with relation to the the deletion of records of investigations relating to homosexuality inArmedForces. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 May 2020 to Question 6165 on Drugs: Misuse, what the evidential basis is for suggestion that drug consumption clinics encourage drug use; what assessment she has made of the consistency of her policy on drug consumption clinics with the findings of the reports entitled (a) Reducing opioid-related deaths in the UK, published by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in December 2016 and (b) What is the current evidence for the efficacy of drug consumption rooms?, published by Public Health England in March 2019, that there was no evidence that drug consumption clinics increase drug use; and what her policy is on evidence-based approaches to reduce the health-related harms of drug misuse. I had hoped, maybe 30 years ago, that we were moving away from that, but then we started going backwards as feminists (self-ID) began supporting mens fantasies as empowering women. Hours: 30 mins. HPV 16 and 18 are the two most common high-risk strains of HPV that are found in 99.8% of cervical cancer cases. The Government continues to conduct research into conversion therapy and will publish this in due course. It is available at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-drugs-phase-one-report. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government report entitled An evaluation of the Governments Drug Strategy 2010, which reported a lack of robust evidence as to whether capture and punishment serves as a deterrent for drug use, for what reason drug users continue to be criminalised given that lack of robust evidence. [24] It was followed with a supporting role of a Victorian waif in the BBC2 television documentary Queen Victoria Died in 1901 and is Still Alive Today (2001). The Planning Inspectorate maintains its commitment to simplifying the planning appeal process by making best use of digital systems to support effective service delivery. I am always keen to hear about the issues, both local and national, which matter most to you so please feel free to get in touch! There is an established process for the development of medicines, overseen by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which enables medicines containing controlled drugs to be developed, evaluated in clinical trials and licensed based on an assessment of their quality, safety and efficacy before being made available to patients in the UK. We will continue to keep guidance and restrictions under review, in line with the changing situation. To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will update the Homelessness Code of Guidance for Local Authorities to remove the local connection test for those currently serving in the Regular Armed Forces or who have served in the Regular Forces. The UK Government works to ensure that all aid reaches the most vulnerable including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. Our first principle is always that we should "do no harm" and we seek advice from local LGBT+ Civil Society Organisations to ensure that our interventions are of genuine benefit to LGBT+ communities. To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the finding in research by NFU Mutual, published on 7 February 2023, that 39 per cent of dog owners surveyed stated that their dog does not always respond to their command to return; if she will take steps to increase the number of dogs receiving training to prevent sheep worrying; and whether her Department has conducted research on the potential impact of such training on the number of dog attacks on sheep. The refreshed Veterans Strategy Action Plan includes a reference to planned research on supported housing, including veterans. Bills Introduced - The legal action reached the Supreme Court in November 2011 on the issue of limitation. Best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series, he appeared in all three installments: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Detailed proposals for the new Innovative Medicines Fund are in development and will be consulted on in due course. He read Politics at the University of Durham between 1981 and 1984, where he was elected President of the Union Society in 1983. In July 1997, he was elected as Secretary of the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Committee and the Conservative Middle East Council. This includes a variety of key performance metrics relating to enforcement, diversion into treatment, as well as treatment and recovery outputs. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs regularly provides advice on the harms of drugs, and these are published on the gov.uk website. Guidance can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/staying-alert-and-safe-social-distancing/staying-alert-and-safe-social-distancing-after-4-july. The NCA regularly publishes the outcomes of investigations via press notices on its website. To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how his Department is using its term as (a) co-chair of the Equal Rights Coalition and (b) Commonwealth Chair in Office to ensure governments around the world are protecting LGBT+ communities from increased marginalisation and violence during the covid-19 pandemic. To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2020 to Question 18743 on Medical Treatments: Innovation, if he will include provisions on improving access to medicine for rare diseases as part of the innovative medicines fund. [22], In May 2014, Blunt was one of seven unsuccessful candidates for the chairmanship of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. We are working to create and sustain an inclusive environment where people of all faiths and beliefs feel able to be authentic in the workplace, feel respected and are able to achieve their full potential. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2020 to Question 11461, whether her Department has received written legal opinion on the provisions in law that would be engaged by the operation of medically supervised Drug Consumption Clinics. Steps we have taken to ensure this is reflected in decision making include convening the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, which published its final report and recommendations on 30 January and which we will respond to in due course. The County Lines Programme and Project ADDER is monitored at a number of levels including by the Combating Drug Misuse Delivery Board. He also voiced his character in the video game The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2023 to Question 125224 on Armed Forces: Homosexuality, whether his Department is aware of earlier destruction of relevant records. In 2000 the targeted removal of written warnings that had been placed on individual service records, where homosexuality was suspected but not proven, after the lifting of the ban on homosexuals serving in the Armed Forces made such warnings inapplicable. He is the Chairman of the. The current restrictions on social contact include an exemption for gathering to attend a funeral. The court which convictedKhan found he had plied a 15-year-oldwith gin and tonic before dragging him upstairs to watch pornography and groping him in a bunk bed. Regulation will not prevent adults from accessing or posting legal content, nor require companies to remove specific pieces of legal content. Blunt contested his first Parliamentary seat at the 1992 general election, as the Conservative Party candidate in West Bromwich East. To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. On 9 April, the UK participated in the UN Human Rights Council's first ever virtual conversation with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The operation has also made a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of Serious Organised Crime in the UK, how it operates and its vulnerabilities, which is assisting law enforcement operations going forwards. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which Minister is responsible for reporting to the Drug Strategy Board on the implementation of recommendations in the 2019 ACMD report on Custody-Community Transitions, published on 12 June 2019; and when that Minister plans to make that report. This is supported by Respectful School Communities, a self-review and signposting tool to support schools to develop a whole-school approach which promotes respect and discipline. In 2021, 98% of parents received an offer from one of their top three choices of primary school, while 93.4% received offers from one of their top three choices of secondary school. To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the provisions in the Nationality and Borders Bill on (a) equality and (b) safety for LGBTQ+ people. As such, in the absence of the reassurance that a CBPM has gone through the safety, quality and efficacy process established by the MHRA, it is right that it is in Schedule 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. Our policy on drugs is clear we must prevent drug use in our communities and support people through treatment and recovery. However, a number of initiatives that have been implemented under the 2017 Drug Strategy have been subject to assessment or evaluation, including; On the question of punishment for people who break the law, including buying illicit drugs, the Government is unashamedly clear that drug use is unacceptable and users must face the consequences. The Government recognises that a number of studies into the potential use of psilocybin as part of the treatment for mental health conditions have been or are being conducted in the UK. The Medicines and Healthcare products and Regulatory Agency has received 242 notifications for the importation of unlicensed CBPMs from specialist importers in the past 12 months. PHE publishes a weekly epidemiological surveillance report with information about cases and deaths by sex, age, ethnicity and other characteristics. The study is currently going through MOD Ethics and the NHS Health Research Authority Confidentiality Advisory Group ahead of the data flows starting between NHS Digital and MOD. (Registered 28 July 2022), 4 August 2021, received 3,333.46. It was not my intention to do this. We are also committed to ending rough sleeping, including for veterans. We continue to work with partners to address the underlying drivers of exploitation and ensure support and protection is in place for children exploited through county lines criminality. [7] In 1991, he gained an MBA at the Cranfield School of Management. There are no current plans to establish a further National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) assessment programme for orphan medicines. Such advice is a statutory requirement and will be considered before any decision is taken on scheduling under the 2001 Regulations. Since it was reformed in July 2016, the CDF has had a fixed budget of 340 million. Operation VENETIC is an ongoing operation yielding tangible results on a weekly basis. The response was published on Gov.uk and is available at the following link: Legitimate use of controlled drugs: research and healthcare - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). [22], Later clarifying his views to The Guardian, Newstead said: "I still say it was unnecessary [for Crispin Blunt to come out]. Hours: 36 hrs. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of pupils unable to access their nearest school because of religiously selective admissions. 28 million for Project ADDER a new intensive approach to tackling drug misuse, which combines targeted and tougher policing with diversionary schemes and enhanced treatment and recovery services. The Government established the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) to ensure access for National Health Service patients in England to effective cancer drugs that would not otherwise have been available to them. [35], In January 2015, Keynes completed a three-month internship at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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