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1241525

registered interest
date	08/10/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions she has had with UK trade partners on maintaining environmental protection standards in trade agreements.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	907251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2020 answer text <p>HM Government is committed to meeting its ambitious environmental objectives, as we demonstrated last year by becoming the first major country to enshrine our Net Zero commitment into legislation.</p><p> </p><p>We're exploring environmental provisions in the design of our Free Trade Agreements to secure Britain’s high environmental standards. Of course, the precise details of free trade agreements are a matter for the formal negotiations. We will lay the full treaty text before Parliament at the end of the negotiations to enable proper scrutiny.</p> answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena question first answered 08/10/2020 15:45:26 answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1241526

registered interest
date	08/10/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions she has had with UK trade partners on maintaining environmental protection standards in trade agreements.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	907256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2020 answer text <p>HM Government is committed to meeting its ambitious environmental objectives, as we demonstrated last year by becoming the first major country to enshrine our Net Zero commitment into legislation.</p><p> </p><p>We're exploring environmental provisions in the design of our Free Trade Agreements to secure Britain’s high environmental standards. Of course, the precise details of free trade agreements are a matter for the formal negotiations. We will lay the full treaty text before Parliament at the end of the negotiations to enable proper scrutiny.</p> answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena question first answered 08/10/2020 15:49:33 answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1241527

registered interest
date	08/10/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions she has had with UK trade partners on maintaining International Labour Organisation standards in future trade agreements.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	907259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2020 answer text <p>While the detail of free trade agreements is reserved for formal negotiations, we have committed in our public mandates to protect our labour standards as the British people would expect. These include health and safety, minimum wages and action on modern slavery. We will continue to uphold Britain’s high standards and remain an active member of the International Labour Organisation.</p> answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena question first answered 08/10/2020 15:28:18 answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1240418

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of public sector websites (a) comply and (b) do not comply with accessibility requirements mandated by the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	99015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government Digital Service (GDS) is testing websites in accordance with the Accessibility Regulation.</p><p>GDS is encouraging organisations to engage with them to increase the accessibility of their websites for users.</p><p>GDS will periodically publish information about their monitoring. GDS will also, on behalf of the Minister for Cabinet Office, publish a list of websites with non-compliant accessibility statements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 99016 question first answered 08/10/2020 16:42:21 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1240467

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's announcement of 30 September 2020 of £3 billion of grants for energy efficiency improvements, if he will set out a timeframe for (a) publication of details of the scheme for schools and public buildings and (b) when applications for the scheme are planned to open.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	99062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2020 answer text <p>The Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme will help public sector organisations in England, including central government departments and their agencies, local authorities, schools and NHS Trusts, to install energy efficiency and low carbon heating measures.</p><p> </p><p>The Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme is open for applications, and more details including how to apply, can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-sector-decarbonisation-scheme-psds" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-sector-decarbonisation-scheme-psds</a>.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 08/10/2020 16:55:45 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1240679

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Building Safety Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of applications to the Building Safety Fund were successful; and how much of that £1 billion fund was allocated to those applications.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	99574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>The Department is continuing to work with building owners to progress applications for the Building Safety Fund and published registration statistics on 30 September, which can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fremediation-of-non-acm-buildings%23building-safety-fund-registration-statistics&amp;data=02%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7C352292ff994f423de24c08d87037b8e6%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637382731904352539&amp;sdata=40SRx%2FOZNLLb6hoLy8T2DJ4mNwxwHhDZcVuAPxwSD9U%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/remediation-of-non-acm-buildings#building-safety-fund-registration-statistics.</a></p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 14/10/2020 12:57:42 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1240682

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Endometriosis: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women in each age group have been treated for endometriosis in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	99606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>Data on the number of women who have been treated or diagnosed with endometriosis is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries grouped question UIN 98970 question first answered 14/10/2020 08:56:20 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1240684

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Ethnic Groups: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to her oral contribution of 4 June 2020, official report, column 1003, on public health England review: covid-19 disparities, what recent progress has been made on the Government's review of its work to lessen disparities in infection and death rates of covid-19 between Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities and the wider population.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	99575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2020 answer text <p>I am leading cross-government work on the findings of the Public Health England Report “Disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19”. The Race Disparity Unit (RDU) is supporting me in this</p><p><br>Following work undertaken by the RDU, the Office for National statistics, and the wider scientific community, we have made good progress in recent weeks in identifying the key drivers of these disparities and the relationships between the different risk factors for ethnic minority communities. I have also been reviewing the effectiveness and impact of current actions being undertaken by government departments and their agencies to directly lessen the disparities. I will shortly be sending the first quarterly progress report on my work to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, as required by the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/next-steps-for-work-on-covid-19-disparities-announced" target="_blank">terms of reference</a>.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 22/10/2020 10:14:09 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1240686

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure children and young people who need mental health support who (a) meet and (b) do not meet the thresholds for eligibility for children and adolescent mental health services are able to access timely support.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	99607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2020 answer text <p>We are introducing two waiting times for children and young people by the end of 2020/21: for 95% of children (up to 19 years old) with eating disorders to receive treatment within one week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases, and for 60% of patients of all ages experiencing a first episode of psychosis to receive treatment within two weeks of referral.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to an additional 345,000 children and young people in England accessing mental health support each year by 2023/24, via National Health Service-funded mental health services and schools- and college-based mental health support teams.</p><p>We are also piloting a four-week waiting time for children and young people’s mental health services in 12 areas to inform the development of a new national access and waiting times standard.</p><p>If a young person does not meet the threshold of a local NHS children and young people’s specialist mental health service, the young person and/or their carers should be signposted to appropriate support elsewhere. On 8 September, the Government launched a mental wellbeing campaign for children and young people. This involves an extension of Public Health England’s Every Mind Matters webpage and signposts to a range of support available to children and young people and their parents and carers.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 20/10/2020 16:47:36 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1240687

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of (a) the tier system in children and adolescent mental health services and (b) the use of alternative therapeutic approaches for children who have experienced trauma.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	99608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>‘Future in Mind’, published by the Department and NHS England in 2015, recommended that children and young people’s mental health services move away from the concept of tiers, in which the system is defined by the services that provide the care, towards models that are defined by how they address patients’ needs.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has worked with Health Education England to deliver the children and young people’s improving access to psychological therapies programme. It trains new and existing staff working in children and young people’s mental health services and includes evidence-based trauma informed practice.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has made recommendations on the psychological interventions for the prevention and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in children and young people in its guideline on post-traumatic stress disorder.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 14/10/2020 09:18:50 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon