[1] A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons and Youth Justice within the Ministry of Justice from 2010 to 2012 and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee from 2015 until 2017. Three advisers quit last month over the government's handling of LGBT rights and amid claims it was "dragging its feet" on a pledge to ban so-called conversion therapy. Whilst it is not possible to define an overall cost for this complex, large scale multi agency operation, over 56 million in criminal cash has so far been seized as a result of this operation. The statutory Code of Practice for the Welfare of Dogs includes guidance and reminders for owners about their responsibilities to provide for the welfare needs of their animals and to keep their dogs safe and under control. 13 times against the majority of their Party. His mother, Zelfa Hourani, is Lebanese; and his father, Randal Keynes, is a British author. A commemorative event following a persons death may be held following the funeral including a wake, stone setting or scattering of ashes. "The government is led by one of the most socially liberal, live-and-let-live leaders in our history," he said, "yet it is making a series of unforced errors that will serve to wholly unnecessarily alienate LGBT+ people and do untold damage to his reputation". Blunt, who is chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on LGBT+ rights, is one of a small number of politicians within the Conservative Party who fervently supports Stonewall and their stance on gender self-identification: he believes that it is discriminatory to exclude those who are male but identify as trans from womens services and spaces. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 June 2021 to Question 8524, with reference to the outcomes framework monitored through the Drugs Misuse Delivery Board and the monitoring and evaluation frameworks in place to monitor the impact of the Governments county lines programme and Project ADDER, how these frameworks were derived, including any relevant logic models; whether the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs were consulted to advise on their development; what metrics are being used and how data is being collected; who is responsible for the publication of the findings of these frameworks; and when the reports are expected to be published. He argues that supporting transgender individuals is an extension of the party's tradition of supporting individual liberty. It is important to seek professional advice to identify/discuss any behaviour problems and the best training options for your dog as an incorrect training regime can negatively affect a dogs welfare. He read Politics at the University of Durham between 1981 and 1984, where he was elected President of the Union Society in 1983. The UK is committed to promoting and protecting the rights of LGBT+ people. We are keen to align this work with any recommendations stemming from Part two of Dame Carol Blacks review, which is due for publication shortly. 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. As part of that review, the Government invited the Law Commission to make recommendations about how marriage by humanist and other non-religious belief organisations could be incorporated into a revised or new scheme for all marriages that is simple, fair and consistent. In 1979, Crispin was commissioned as an Army Officer into the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) and served until 1990. Cocaine is a licensed medicine authorised for local anaesthesia and vasoconstriction of the mucous membranes, for use in procedures such as oral and ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery. To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the average length of time is applicants have had to wait since 1 January 2020 to have an appeal heard (a) against a planning authority's decision against development of more than one home and (b) planning enforcement decisions by a planning authority. An avid Cricketer, Crispin is a member of the MCC and the Lords and Commons Cricket Club and still enjoys representing the Parliamentary side in his spare time. [4], Keynes supports conservation projects. [44] In February 2017, on behalf of the Qatar All-Party Parliamentary Group, he visited Qatar to meet ministers and officials, visit sites in development for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and discuss issues of bilateral relations and regional crises. We will continue to keep guidance and restrictions under review, in line with the changing situation. A wider overview of Operation VENETIC can also be found in the NCAs 2021 National Strategic Assessment. There is an established process for the development of medicines, which enables medicines (including those containing Schedule 1 drugs such as psilocybin) to be developed, evaluated in clinical trials and licensed based on an assessment of their safety, quality and efficacy. Member for Reigate dated 5 May 2022 on planning enforcement on traveller encampments. Voting information from He reprised his role as Edmund in Prince Caspian, directed by Andrew Adamson and released in May 2008 to generally positive reviews, grossing $419.7 million worldwide. Commons Actions - The MODs priority now is to understand the full impact of the historic ban and find appropriate ways to address the wrongs of the past, where possible. He won a 1500-metre long race competition in 2006,[27] and also ran 42km at the 2012 Beirut Marathon in aid of Prostate Cancer UK. However, there is not an exhaustive list of such drugs. We will keep this under review. We have pressed for due process and raised concerns over the use of solitary confinement and the use of torture. This may include people identifying as LGBT+, as well as those who identify as having another protected characteristic. I can assure you that everyone across Government wants to ease these restrictions as soon as possible. In July 1997, he was elected as Secretary of the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Committee and the Conservative Middle East Council. Further information about the process and timescale for the review is available on the NICE website at the following link: https://www.nice.org.uk/about/what-we-do/our-programmes/nice-guidance/nice-technology-appraisal-guidance/changes-to-health-technology-evaluation. They remain separated but have not divorced. [19] When the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition formed a government in 2010, Blunt was appointed as the first Minister of State for Prisons at the Ministry of Justice. Local councils are best placed to determine how best to manage access to social housing they are responsible for allocating housing through local schemes. To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether the UK will participate as an observer nation at the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons first meeting of state parties; and if will she make a statement. [12] In 1993, he was appointed as Special Adviser to Malcolm Rifkind, the then-Secretary of State for Defence, and worked in the same capacity when Rifkind became Foreign Secretary between 1995 and 1997. It will also tackle the rise in drug-related deaths via the provision of naloxone to prevent drug overdoses. To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Local authorities are best placed to make decisions on what local services they provide, based on local priorities and circumstances. To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there are circumstances under which Specialist Importers may import cannabis-based active pharmaceutical ingredients for use in the manufacturing of cannabis-based products for medicinal use in the UK. To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) expenditure was between (a) April 2019 to March 2020 and (b) April 2020 to September 2020. Key factors in the JBC risk assessment of each country include: A summary of the JBC methodology is published ongov.uk, alongside key data that supports Ministers' decisions. Discussion focused on the human rights implications of the COVID-19 crisis which included concerns about increased risks on vulnerable groups. [3], On 1 May 2022, he announced he would be standing down at the next general election. "[45], Blunt is a keen cricketer, representing the Parliamentarians team, alongside fellow MPs Peter Bone and Hugh Robertson. The Home Office and Public Health England have worked closely with delivery partners in each of the pilot Project ADDER areas to develop a delivery plan based on local need to provide a whole-system response to drugs misuse and drug-related harms locally. Blunt decidedto release a highly unusual and hyberbolic statement which lambasted the conviction as a dreadful miscarriage of justice incited by lazy tropes about LGBT+ people based in Victorian era prejudice. He even claimed that Khans guilty verdictisnothing short of an international scandal, with dreadful wider implications for millions of LGBT+ muslims around the world, writing: I am utterly appalled and distraught at the dreadful miscarriage of justice that has befallen my friend and colleague Imran Ahmad Khan, MP for Wakefield since December 2019. [4], Blunt was born in Germany, one of three sons of English parents Adrienne (ne Richardson) and Major-General Peter Blunt (19232003). [15][16], In October 2010, Keynes began his degree in Arabic, Persian and Middle Eastern History at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 - 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy.. Blunt was a professor of art history at the University of London, the director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures.His 1967 monograph on the French Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin is . EDMs - (Or one of them, anyway.) The refreshed Veterans Strategy Action Plan includes a reference to planned research on supported housing, including veterans. A Parallel Parliament Subscription is required to receive alerts, you can view more details by clicking on the button below. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Surveillance conducted among young sexually active women in England has compared changes in the number of women who have a HPV infection over time since the introduction of the HPV vaccination. As the then Crime and Policing Minister set out in his response to Question 7725, a number of drugs which have been controlled under the 1971 Act for a considerable period of time have not been subject to analysis or recent analysis of harm. The Government has no plans to change the law on drug consumption rooms. 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. [34] Blunt has been described as "a long-term critic of Israel". We will continue to call for political detainees, including women's rights defenders, to be given adequate legal representation. 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. [27][49][50] He plays cricket and football, and is a supporter of Arsenal Football Club. A number of lady members were very offended by the manner in which his marriage broke down. Psilocybin, as an ester of psilocin, is controlled as a Class A drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (the 1971 Act) and is placed in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. [47], Keynes plays the guitar, flute, and cornet. That is why, on 20 January the Government announced 148 million of new investment to cut crime and protect people from the scourge of illegal drugs. We have robust arrangements in place to oversee delivery of this work including outcomes framework which is monitored through a cross government Drugs Misuse Delivery Board. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to protect the secular ethos of (a) non-faith and (a) community-ethos academies entering into mixed-multi academy trusts. To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the systematic discrimination faced by Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as reported by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the UN Special Rapporteur; whether she accepts the conclusion of their reports; and whether her Department plans to carry out its own legal analysis of that matter. The advice makes clear that schools should make appropriate provision for a bullied child's social, emotional, and mental health needs. In the letter, Newstead said: "I do not know what motivated my executive colleagues but I suspect that Crispin has been the author of his own misfortune. It is not currently possible to import bulk quantities of these products. Psilocybin, as an ester of psilocin, is controlled as a Class A drug under the 1971 Act and is placed in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. Shes an outspoken critic of Stonewall. That is why we have committed 148m this year to cut drug-related crime and support people into recovery, this includes 40m for disrupting drug supply and county lines, 80m for drug treatment and a further 28m for Project ADDER (Addiction, Disruption, Diversion, Enforcement and Recovery). Women are allowed to exclude men from womens services and spaces. Pensions for Service Personnel are linked to their pay and length of service. A large number of cases linked to Operation VENETIC are progressing through the criminal justice system and it would be inappropriate to comment further on these at this time. Our approach will empower adult users to keep themselves safe online, while ensuring children are protected and maintaining robust protections for freedom of expression. Crispin Blunt was born in 1960 and was educated at Wellington College and The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he won the Queen's Medal, gaining a Regular Commission. The majority of parents are offered a place at a school of their choice. Make suicide prevention a compulsory part of the school curriculum. In January, the Government announced 80 million additional funding for drug treatment services in England, including a focus on increasing the number of treatment places for prison leavers, and 70 million investment in accommodation and wider support for prison leavers, including for those with substance misuse problems. A week after the ominous phone call, Townsend was informed that Blunt had submitted a complaint about her tweet to the PCP. Reigate, @crispinbluntmp The first report is expected in 2022. His constituency, Reigate, sits within Townsends jurisdiction as PCC. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraphs 4 and 5 on page 3 of her Department's Factsheet on Cannabis, CBD and other cannabinoids, what assessment she has made of the limit of detection that is the appropriate level of sensitivity to accurately determine through laboratory analysis that there are no controlled cannabinoids present in a CBD product and that the product contains CBD in its pure form. As it says in the conclusion of the paper Larger and longer trials, including comparison with existing treatments, are required to determine the efficacy and safety of psilocybin for this disorder. When new treatments are sufficiently developed, there are existing mechanisms in the United Kingdom to licence those treatments and determine their cost effectiveness and use. They will no longer be able to arbitrarily remove controversial viewpoints. This report is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-surveillance-reports. Alongside the IMF, we will continue to support the Early Access to Medicines Scheme, which is a key part of the Governments commitment to accelerating patient access to innovative, life-changing treatments. As the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is independent from Government, its responses to correspondence are a matter for the ACMD. Faith schools have played an important role in our education system for many years. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government's response to the Health and Social Care Committees First Report of Session 2019, on Drugs policy, HC 1178, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Committees recommendation that policy responsibility for drugs should move from the Home Office to the Department of Health and Social Care. In line with DLUHCs commitments in the Armed Forces Covenant, we introduced regulations in 2012 that prevent local authorities from applying a local connection test to disqualify serving personnel as well as those within 5 years of having left the Armed Forces. The FCDO is aware of the reports listed above. To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many notifications the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has received from (a) pharmacies and (b) Specialist Importers on importation orders for unlicensed cannabis-based products for medicinal use in the last 12 months. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) high-THC cultivation licences, (b) low-THC cultivation licences, (c) Schedule 1 domestic licences and (d) Schedule 1 import licences were granted in 2019. It was during the 2006 July war, I was 14 then but it didn't really shake my view of Lebanon as effectively a second home, a place where I come to and I have family." These topics are listed in the following table. Information is not held by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) on whether subsequent deaths for former serving personnel were due to post-traumatic stress disorder or other causes. Which is more important: mens freedom to indulge their fantasies, or womens physical safety? This mirrors the findings of the report from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, and our ambitious response - the Inclusive Britain strategy, which highlighted the importance of a whole system approach. Keynes achieved international prominence in the role of Edmund Pevensie in the major motion picture The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) directed by Andrew Adamson. We have built on the research undertaken as part of the review, and have continued to consult external experts in order to shape the approach and interventions set out in the strategy. Recent data indicates that the main drivers of this overrepresentation lie upstream of the point of prosecution. Improved content, signposting, an additional claim form and a bespoke printable pdf leaflet are now available to assist Nuclear Test Veterans prior to submitting their application. My previous answer to Question UIN 105327 on 31 January 2022 sets out the position on the provision of local housing support services. To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many nuclear test veterans have submitted claims under any compensation scheme; and how many of those claims have been successful. Where companies are willing to price their drugs fairly in a way that reflects the benefits they bring to patients, NICE has been able to recommend a number of orphan medicines for routine NHS funding through its technology appraisal programme. It also recommends reward-based training as the widely preferred form of training dogs. To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he plans to take to challenge impunity for killings of LGBTI defenders in the Philippines. Senior Tory MP Crispin Blunt on Sunday became the first to break cover and publicly call for her to go. To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) his Department and (b) NHS England undertook an equalities impact assessment of the amendments to NHS Englands service specification for Gender Identity Development Services for children and adolescents published on 1 December 2020; and if he will make a statement. (Registered 15 February 2019), From 7 November 2022, unremunerated Board Member of Psych Capital Plcs Medical Psychedelic Technical Advisory Board. It is available at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-drugs-phase-one-report. (Registered 14 July 2022), From 1 July 2022 until further notice, I receive 25,000 per annum, paid monthly. If there is such a weight of opinion in the parliamentary party that we have to have a change, then it will be effected.[40] He was the first Conservative MP to openly call for Truss's resignation. I would have just said if anyone had asked me: politicians have a unique lifestyle, it doesn't suit everybody and there is a long history of parliamentary marriages breaking down. [18], Blunt is a former joint chair of the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding. To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how the specific needs of (a) LGBT+ homeless people and (b) other homeless people with protected characteristics have been taken into account in the steps the Government is taking to tackle the covid-19 outbreak. This will help charities to provide support to vulnerable people during the pandemic, including those whose beneficiaries have a protected characteristic. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Psilocin is also subject to the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, to which the United Kingdom is signatory. 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. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2023 to Question 126511 and the Answer of 9th February 2023 to Question 140011, whether her Department is in possession of any (a) recent and (b) historic evidence to show that Psilocybin (i) causes harm or (ii) has the potential to cause harm. To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in the context of reported figures on black people being ten times more likely than white people to be sent to prison for first-time drug offences, what steps he is taking to tackle this imbalance. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 May 2021 to Question 5140, how the Government plans to assess the (a) effectiveness and (b) value for money of enforcement activity in circumstances where no evaluation framework has been developed for the 2017 Drug Strategy. Import licences are issued for individual drug substances as opposed to by schedule of drug. Blunt tried to bully her over a JK Rowling tweet. The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) was introduced by the Government to provide compensation to military personnel injured on or after 6 April 2005. On his father's side, Keynes is of English descent, and is the grandson of physiologist Richard Keynes, the nephew of two Cambridge professors, the historian Simon Keynes, and the neuroscientist Roger Keynes, the cousin of Catholic writer and apologist Laura Keynes,[9][10] and the great-great-nephew of economist John Maynard Keynes. These subjects are designed to give pupils the knowledge they need to lead happy, safe, and healthy lives and to foster respect for other people and for difference. [41], Blunt married Victoria Jenkins in September 1990 in Kensington and they have a daughter, Claudia (born March 1992), and son, Frederick (born August 1994). Hours: 45 mins. Crispin Blunt has had quite the 24 hours. The Government maintains that it is best practice to keep a dog on a lead around livestock. I reminded him that I have a duty to defend womens right to access single-sex refuges, hospital wards and prisons not just because it matters to me, but because it matters to many of the people I represent.. The department provides advice for schools outlining schools responsibilities. Read about our approach to external linking. Hours: 1.5 hrs. Published on January 14, 2015, it has been widely reported in the media and cited by foreign policy think tanks. To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps Ministers in her Department have taken in relation to the case of Christopher Emms since his detention in Saudi Arabia on 6 February 2022. It matters to women. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 June 2021 to Question 8525 which noted that the cost of Operation Venetic is unknown, and to the Answer of 26 May 2021 to Question 5143 which noted that no assessment of the effects of Operation Venetic on the drugs markets has been made, if she will take steps to commission a full evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of Operation Venetic to the taxpayer, including estimates of (a) total costs across all relevant UK agencies; (b) total income raised from seized assets; (c) impacts on drug availability, rates of use, drug-related harms, and the associated costs and savings; and (d) impact on market-related violence and the associated costs and benefits, with reference to the finding of the Home Offices 2017 evaluation of the 2010 drug strategy that drugs market violence is an unintended consequence of enforcing drug laws. Blunt, who is chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on . The UK continues to have strong domestic drugs monitoring and surveillance systems, augmented through our sharing of information and expertise with international partners, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Health Organization. error404,theme-capri,qode-core-2.1.1,select-core-2.1.1,woocommerce-no-js,ajax_fade,page_not_loaded,,capri-ver-3.3, vertical_menu_background_opacity, vertical_menu_with_scroll,smooth_scroll,fade_push_text_top,paspartu_enabled,woocommerce_installed,blog_installed,wpb-js-composer js-comp-ver-6.4.2,vc_responsive.
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