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Lord Vallance of Balham (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 28 April 2026

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UK Biobank, for all the reasons stated, is expensive to run, and it is run with a mix of funding from government, charities and industry, with the major funders being the UK Government and the Wellcome Trust over many years. The principle of it has been to give access to people; therefore, there is not a big cost put on its users. On our approach, we knew that the leak was in China, and we therefore immediately asked the embassy in China to link to the Government there to see if they could help us get these taken off the website. We did not make any conclusion about where they had come from; we just thought that that would probably be the fastest way to get these removed.

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