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1341130

registered interest
date	28/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to introduce a visa scheme to allow employers to recruit overseas workers to customer-facing roles.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	23310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2021 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions should be the first port of call for employers seeking to fill vacancies, rather than the Home Office.</p><p>On advice from the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), the Government broadened the eligibility of Skilled Worker visas from graduate jobs only to include jobs skilled to RQF level 3 (roughly equivalent to A-levels) and lowered the salary threshold to £25,600 enabling employers to recruit in more customer facing roles than was possible under the previous immigration system.</p><p>Yet where a job needs only a short period of training or time to acquire the qualifications necessary the focus should be on recruiting from the domestic labour market, especially given the economic impact of the global pandemic means many may be looking for new employment or to change careers.</p><p>Immigration policy cannot be seen as an alternative to improving training and career pathways or tackling issues such as unattractive pay and working conditions for those undertaking customer-facing roles. Given this we will not be introducing a general migration route allowing employers to recruit at or near the minimum wage, with no work-based training requirements, including to such roles.</p><p>More broadly, the Government’s Plan for Jobs is helping people across the country retrain, build new skills and getting back into work as part of the UK’s recovery from COVID-19, with the Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Education and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy leading work on the overall UK labour market and skills.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/07/2021 15:19:18 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1338925

registered interest
date	22/06/2021
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	Axel Heitmueller
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide details of all roles performed for his Department by Axel Heitmuller.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	20496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>Axel Heitmueller worked for NHS Test and Trace in the following roles: Director of Innovation and Partnerships; Director of Testing Strategy and Policy; and Director for overall Strategy and Innovation for NHS Test and Trace.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/06/2021 13:26:13 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1338512

registered interest
date	21/06/2021
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	Air Pollution: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2021 to Question 12283 on Air Pollution: Coronavirus, whether his Department has plans to make an assessment of the ability of photohydroionization technology to prevent covid-19 transmission via aerosol and water droplets.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	19670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2021 answer text <p>There are no plans to do so.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 28/06/2021 11:52:07 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1337416

registered interest
date	16/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Manual Workers: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that unskilled labour vacancies are being filled since the UK left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	16942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2021 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions should be the first port of call for employers seeking to fill vacancies, rather than the Home Office.</p><p>We do not view any job as “unskilled”, the difference is how long it takes to train for or gain the necessary qualifications for it. Where a job needs only a short period of training or time to acquire the qualifications necessary the focus should be on recruiting from the domestic labour market, especially given the economic impact of the global pandemic means many may be looking for new employment or to change careers.</p><p>Immigration policy cannot be seen as an alternative to improving training and career pathways or tackling issues such as unattractive pay and working conditions. Given this we will not be introducing a general migration route allowing employers to recruit at or near the minimum wage, with no work-based training requirements.</p><p>More broadly, the Government’s Plan for Jobs is helping people across the country retrain, build new skills and getting back into work as part of the UK’s recovery from COVID-19, with the Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Education and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy leading work on the overall UK labour market and skills.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 25/06/2021 12:13:53 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1336634

registered interest
date	15/06/2021
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	Imperial College Health Partners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out the (a) value and (b) purpose of each contract awarded by his Department to Imperial College Health Partners since March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	16205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>The Department has not awarded any contracts with Imperial College Health Partners since March 2020.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/06/2021 15:52:08 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1336635

registered interest
date	15/06/2021
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: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been awarded to the University of St Andrews for research into whether ultraviolet-C light is effective against covid-19; what the terms of reference for that research are; and what estimate he has made of when the findings will be reported to Government and published.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	16206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2021 answer text <p>A total of £136,000 has been awarded to the University of St Andrews under the</p><p>provisions of NHS Act 2006 Para 13 Schedule.</p><p>The terms of reference are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>- The trials and assessment will be carried out by the University of St. Andrew;</p><p>- The Funding Period started on 1 March 2021 and ends on 28 February 2022 unless terminated earlier in accordance with this Grant Funding Agreement; and</p><p>- The Grant Recipient shall provide the Authority with a quarterly report on the progress of the trials on evaluating the efficacy of viricidal Far-UVC light technology and its ability to inactivate virus in droplets, aerosols and on surfaces in simulated public locations.</p><p> </p><p>Initial results are expected in Quarter 4 2021.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/06/2021 12:26:26 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1330694

registered interest
date	08/06/2021
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	Air Pollution: 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 assessment his Department has made of the ability of photohydroionization (PHI) technology to prevent covid-19 transmission via aerosol and water droplets.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	12283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2021 answer text <p>We have made no specific assessment.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 16/06/2021 15:27:07 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1330695

registered interest
date	08/06/2021
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	Air Pollution: 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 discussions officials in his Department have had with representatives of NHS East England on their purchase of photohydroionization (PHI) technology to prevent covid-19 transmission via aerosol and water droplets.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	12284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>We have had no specific discussions.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/06/2021 15:54:57 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1330003

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
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	Air Pollution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the advice given to the Government by the SAGE Environmental and Modelling Group of 4 November 2020 to undertake rapid research to evaluate likely consumer response to use of air cleaning technologies and understand their level of knowledge and potential behavioural actions, what steps his Department has taken in response to the provision of that advice.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	11648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2021 answer text <p>The advice from the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies was discussed 5 November 2020. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Health and Safety Executive are responsible for determining future policy and regulatory action.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 10615 11649 question first answered 18/06/2021 09:27:08 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1330004

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
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	Air Pollution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the advice given to the Government by the SAGE Environmental and Modelling Group of 4 November 2020 to develop impartial guidance for consumers to allow them to identify appropriate air cleaning devices and technologies to combat SARS-CoV-2, what steps his Department has taken in response to the provision of that advice.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	11649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2021 answer text <p>The advice from the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies was discussed 5 November 2020. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Health and Safety Executive are responsible for determining future policy and regulatory action.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 10615 11648 question first answered 18/06/2021 09:27:08 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley