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1714722

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to remove access to benefits for people sentenced to be held in secure mental health facilities.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	23974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>The DWP Secretary of State has asked officials to look into the rules around benefits entitlements for offenders who are detained in psychiatric hospitals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 08/05/2024 15:08:42 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1346931

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	Travel: Quarantine
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 his Department is taking to help ensure adequate standards of (a) food, (b) cleanliness and (c) safety in covid-19 quarantine hotels.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	33112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>Hotels providing managed quarantine facilities can meet the vast majority of dietary requirements and must provide guests with three meals a day. Enhanced cleaning regimes take place throughout the hotel and guests are provided with their own cleaning equipment for their rooms. The Department has ensured that vulnerable people in quarantine hotels are signposted to the appropriate support and safeguarding procedures are followed where appropriate. All hotels have a security presence and access to an onsite medic 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Department engages with hotels and service providers on a regular basis to monitor the quality and effectiveness of the services provided.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 21/07/2021 14:54:40 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1314437

registered interest
date	13/05/2021
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	NHS: Protective Clothing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the value is of personal protective equipment purchased by the NHS in 2021 to date; and how much of that equipment was manufactured in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2021 answer text <p>In financial year 2021/22, the total spend on personal protective equipment (PPE) to date is £330.5million. Of this, spend on PPE manufactured in the United Kingdom totals £96.2M.</p><p>The Department created the dedicated UK Make programme to increase domestic production. UK Make contracted with manufacturers in the UK able to mobilise and produce PPE for the frontline. However, not all UK-based manufacturers which provided PPE to healthcare settings were part of this programme.</p><p>The PPE programme raised contracts with 31 UK manufacturers and those contracts were all contracted by July 2020. We continue to receive goods purchased under those contracts and by 1 December 2020 inbound supply of UK manufactured PPE was sufficient to meet 82% of demand for PPE over the peak pandemic period of December to February, across all items except gloves.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 08/07/2021 13:25:35 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1311134

registered interest
date	21/04/2021
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	Coronavirus: Protective Clothing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what value of personal protective equipment the NHS has purchased in 2021 to date; and how much of that equipment was manufactured in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	185279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/04/2021 11:45:28 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 99535 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1293315

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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	Operose Health: Centene
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department was consulted before the takeover of Operose by Centene corporation.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	160524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>The ownership of organisations independent of the National Health Service is not a matter for the Department.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 09/03/2021 17:03:31 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1293317

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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	General Practitioners: Foreign Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on the takeover of General Practice surgeries by overseas companies.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	160525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>General practitioner practices in England are commissioned by clinical commissioning groups, through delegated responsibility from NHS England and NHS Improvement to provide primary medical services under either a General Medical Services contract, a Personal Medical Services agreement or an Alternative Provider Medical Services contract. Legislation sets out which individuals and companies are eligible to hold these contracts.</p><p>Eligibility varies slightly between contract type but there is no distinction in the eligibility criteria between companies registered in the United Kingdom and those registered overseas.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 09/03/2021 17:56:17 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1293364

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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	Protective Clothing: Production
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 taking to encourage the production of high grade personal protective masks in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	160527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2021 answer text <p>In April 2020, Lord Deighton was appointed to spearhead Make UK and increase manufacturing of personal protective equipment (PPE) from United Kingdom-based companies.</p><p>We have established UK manufacturing across all product categories except gloves and body bags, establishing our domestic supply base in a way that will build resilience in UK supply chains in the future. We now have four Make UK providers manufacturing FFP3 facemasks in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 08/03/2021 17:51:38 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1285721

registered interest
date	10/02/2021
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	Influenza: Vaccination
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 doses of influenza vaccine his Department purchased in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	152407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2021 answer text <p>The Department has procured over eight million additional doses of seasonal flu vaccine this season, so that we can increase uptake in existing groups and extend the programme to all those over 50 years and household contacts of those who are on the National Health Service Shielding Patient list.</p><p>In 2019, the Department centrally procured 400,000 flu vaccines, in addition to those ordered locally by general practitioners and pharmacies, to provide security to vaccine supply chains.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/02/2021 09:23:34 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1284159

registered interest
date	04/02/2021
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	Electronic Cigarettes: Public Places
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to issue guidance on vaping in public places.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	149159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p>There are no current plans to issue further guidance on vaping in public places.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 16/03/2021 15:11:25 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1239915

registered interest
date	02/10/2020
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	Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's updated estimate is of the number of daily new covid-19 cases during the peak week in March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	98663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2020 answer text <p>The following table shows the estimated number of new COVID-19 infections each day between 20 March and 26 March 2020, which is considered to be the peak of the epidemic in England.</p><p>Estimated number of COVID-19 cases between 20 March and 26 March 2020 in England, shown in thousands</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Upper Confidence Interval</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Lower Confidence Interval</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20 March 2020</p></td><td><p>292</p></td><td><p>219</p></td><td><p>180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21 March 2020</p></td><td><p>361</p></td><td><p>272</p></td><td><p>223</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22 March 2020</p></td><td><p>443</p></td><td><p>335</p></td><td><p>275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>23 March 2020</p></td><td><p>542</p></td><td><p>412</p></td><td><p>338</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>24 March 2020</p></td><td><p>399</p></td><td><p>305</p></td><td><p>252</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25 March 2020</p></td><td><p>205</p></td><td><p>153</p></td><td><p>124</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>26 March 2020</p></td><td><p>233</p></td><td><p>176</p></td><td><p>144</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Source: Latest Report on Nowcasting and Forecasting – 12 October 2020, available to view at the following link:</li></ol><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/tackling-covid-19/nowcasting-and-forecasting-of-covid-19/" target="_blank">https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/tackling-covid-19/nowcasting-and-forecasting-of-covid-19/</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><ol start="2"><li>Note that modelled estimates of daily incidence are liable to change as data accrue.</li></ol> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 22/10/2020 09:15:37 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar