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1240510

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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for urgent mental health service provision.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mike Hill
uin	907122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Clinical Review of Access Standards committed to testing new standards during 2020/21 for urgent mental health crisis care, including access to a liaison psychiatry team in accident and emergency departments within an hour of referral.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan set out measures to achieve 24 hours a day, seven days a week crisis care services, including a new national single point of access via NHS 111, and increased investment in alternative crisis services.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 06/10/2020 15:52:20 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4644 label Biography information for Mike Hill

1240511

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	Health Services: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of negotiations on the future relationship with the EU on the health and social care sector.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	907125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>The negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom are ongoing. The UK has been engaged continuously and constructively in those negotiations, and issues which affect the health and social care sector play an important part in them. We must not prejudge the outcome of those negotiations.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/10/2020 15:58:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1240512

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	NHS: Weather
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What additional support he is providing to the NHS ahead of winter 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Mr Simon Clarke
uin	907129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>This Government is committed to supporting the National Health Service and wider social care sector this winter, as it has throughout this year. In July, the Government announced £3 billion in additional funding, alongside £450 million for accident and emergency department upgrades and expansions. Similarly, we are supporting adult social care with a further £546 million of infection control funding over this winter. Where health policy is devolved, the devolved nations have benefitted from the appropriate Barnett consequentials.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/10/2020 16:13:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke

1240513

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	Coronavirus: Social Distancing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the 10.00pm curfew on hospitality premises serving alcohol on limiting the second wave of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	907132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>We know social mixing is a major factor of transmission and compliance with social distancing and enforcement of regulations becomes more challenging later in the evening.</p><p>We have looked to other countries and taken an approach that balances reducing these contacts and suppressing the virus, with maintaining the livelihoods on those in the hospitality sector, by enabling businesses to remain open.</p><p>We want to see COVID-19-secure businesses remain open, and this is a balance, but contact tracing data has indicated patterns of contacts links to hospitality venues, restaurants, pubs and bar.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 06/10/2020 15:50:17 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1240514

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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to increase the number of mental health hubs in the community.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Duncan Baker
uin	907133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan set out a vision for providing integrated mental health support across primary and community services to ensure people can access the care, treatment and support at the earliest point of need.</p><p>All local areas have received funding to develop and deliver these new models of integrated care by 2023-24. The Government has not prescribed the form these should take though they may take the form of community mental health hubs.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 06/10/2020 15:57:09 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4784 label Biography information for Duncan Baker

1240515

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	NHS: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with his Cabinet colleagues on ensuring that the NHS and social care sectors are adequately resourced during winter 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	907134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>This Government is committed to supporting the National Health Service and wider social care sector this winter, as it has throughout this year. In July, the Government announced £3 billion in additional funding, alongside £450 million for accident and emergency department upgrades and expansions. Similarly, we are supporting adult social care with a further £546 million of infection control funding over this winter. Where health policy is devolved, the devolved nations have benefitted from the appropriate Barnett consequentials.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/10/2020 16:13:31 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1239645

registered interest
date	01/10/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tourism: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what further financial steps he is taking to support people in the tourism sector who have become unemployed during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	98259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>In its Plan for Jobs, the Government has announced unprecedented support to help unemployed people in Great Britain find a job. We are providing £1.2bn to significantly expand and enhance work search support, including doubling the number of work coaches, additional investment into the Flexible Support Fund to provide direct support at a local level, and using externally contracted provision to expand support even further.</p><p> </p><p>Employees aged under 25 were about two and a half times as likely to work in a sector that was shut down, such as accommodation, travel and leisure, as other employees.  Recognising that young people are particularly at risk, the government has also launched a new £2bn Kickstart Scheme, creating hundreds of thousands of new, fully subsidised jobs for young people across Great Britain, as well as a guaranteed foundation of support to all 18-24 year olds on Universal Credit in the Intensive Worksearch group, through its new youth offer.</p><p> </p><p>In England, the government will also support people to build the skills they need to get into work, including by providing funding to triple the number of traineeships and sector-based work academy placements, new payments to employers to hire apprentices and new funding to expand the National Career Service.</p><p> </p><p>These measures will help support people who used to work in the tourism sector, but became unemployed as a result of Covid-19, to get back into work. The Government has also cut the rate of VAT applied to hospitality, accommodation and attractions, from 20% to 5%, for a period of six months which will help the tourism sector in general.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, tourism businesses may be able to benefit from the new Job Support Scheme the government is introducing from 1 November 2020. All Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), including those in the tourism sector, will be eligible. Large businesses will be required to demonstrate that their business has been adversely affected by COVID-19, and the government expects that large employers will not be making capital distributions (such as dividends), while using the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 06/10/2020 14:54:05 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1239650

registered interest
date	01/10/2020
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	Private Rented Housing: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to raise the minimum level of energy efficiency standard for private rented accommodation from band E to band D.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	98260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>The Department has just launched a consultation on improving the energy performance of privately rented homes in England and Wales. Under the Government’s recommended option, landlords would be required to reach EPC Band C for new tenancies from 1 April 2025 and all tenancies by 1 April 2028. The preferred policy option will deliver 7.9 MtCO2e in carbon emission savings over Carbon Budgets 4 and 5. Landlords are encouraged to take advantage of the Green Homes Grant to fund necessary improvements.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 06/10/2020 10:17:19 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1239651

registered interest
date	01/10/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Rail Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the Government's response to the Williams Rail Review consultation which closed on 31 May 2019.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	98261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reforms that deliver a passenger-focused railway, with reliable and safe services. We have now ended the franchising system, paving the way for the wider reforms which will be set out in the upcoming Williams Review White Paper. The Government wants to make progress as quickly as it can, but the impact of Covid-19 has posed challenges. We will publish this as soon as the course of the Covid-19 pandemic allows.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 06/10/2020 14:58:49 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1239652

registered interest
date	01/10/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Fares
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with railway operators on making the price of a single rail journey equivalent of a return ticket for that journey.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	98262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>The Department launched a trial of Single Leg Pricing with LNER on 2 January 2020, removing return tickets for journeys between London King’s Cross and Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh. Removing returns has simplified the fares structure, with flexible single fares purchased just before travel now costing around half of the old return fare and no more singles priced at £1 less than the return. Passengers are able to mix and match tickets much more easily, providing better value for money, tickets that suit their travel plans and cheaper journeys overall.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 06/10/2020 15:29:32 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney