A UK government minister told Parliament on Thursday that data from a health charity, UK Biobank, was briefly listed for sale by at least three vendors on the Chinese Alibaba e-commerce platform.  Ian Murray, the Labour MP for Edinburgh South and a minister of state at the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, told Parliament that the charity first alerted the government to the issue on Monday.  He said that the data was no longer listed for sale and that no buyers were thought to have paid for access, thanking the Chinese government for the "speed and seriousness with which they worked with us to help remove these listings." What did the government say about the data being listed for sale on Alibaba?  Murray said that UK Biobank told the government of at least three listings appearing to sell data that volunteers had provided to the UK charity in a bid to improve research capabilities worldwide.  "At least one of these datasets appeared to contain data from all 500,000…