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1189017

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of people who have been furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme being able to continue to work on critical elements of their employers' operations not related to income generation or trading; and when he plans to respond to the letter dated 31 March 2020 from the hon. Member for Edinburgh East on that subject.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	38566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is designed to help those who otherwise would have been made unemployed and to provide support to businesses as quickly as possible. Allowing employers to move staff to part-time and claim the difference would be contrary to the policy goal and substantially increase the risk of fraud. It is also inconsistent with public health guidance for people to stay at home. However, there is flexibility in the scheme as employers can decide how many staff to furlough, and staff can be furloughed multiple times while the scheme is in operation, provided they are furloughed for a minimum of 3 weeks.<p> </p>The Honourable Member will appreciate that at this unprecedented time the Government is receiving very significant volumes of correspondence. HM Treasury officials are working to ensure that all Honourable Members receive a reply to correspondence as soon as possible.<p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 27/04/2020 08:22:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1189071

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
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	Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme: South Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many businesses have had their Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme applications (a) approved and (b) rejected in the (i) Sheffield City Region and (ii) Barnsley Central constituency.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	38591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>As of 21 April, over £2.8 billion worth of loans have been issued under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme across the UK, to over 16,600 businesses. Lenders have received 36,000 completed applications.</p><p> </p><p>The British Business Bank has streamlined the system by which the biggest accredited CBILS lenders provide information to the Bank, in order to expedite the process. The Bank’s system therefore gathers data from these lenders when loans are offered and drawn. The system does not capture any information on rejected applications.</p><p> </p><p>At this time we cannot provide a breakdown of funding by region, as we have given lenders a temporary dispensation from uploading their data to the British Business Bank’s system in order to let them focus on issuing new loans. This is a pragmatic step that reflects the urgency of getting loans issued. We are working with the British Business Bank, HM Treasury and lenders on regular and transparent data publication going forward.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 27/04/2020 10:39:54 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1188610

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Hong Kong: Politics and Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong on the potential use of national security legislation to suspend the Hong Kong Legislative Council; and what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the use of that legislation with the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	37483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>Under Article 23 of the Hong Kong Basic Law, the Hong Kong SAR Government has an obligation to enact national security legislation, however, the Basic Law does not provide a deadline for such legislation to be enacted. While it is a matter for the Hong Kong authorities to decide when and how to bring forward the legislation, we note the risk that any attempt to introduce it before wider concerns about rights and freedoms in Hong Kong have been addressed could further unsettle the situation in Hong Kong. Any legislation introduced in Hong Kong should be consistent with both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration and the Hong Kong Basic Law. The UK Consul General in Hong Kong meets the Chief Executive and her team on a regular basis, and frequently raises the rights and freedoms guaranteed under the Joint Declaration.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 27/04/2020 08:26:27 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

1188758

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) mass participation sporting events and (b) spectator sports can function effectively after the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	37996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises the impact that covid-19 is having on the sporting sector. The Chancellor has announced an unprecedented package of measures to help businesses in this period, including £330 billion worth of government-backed and guaranteed loans to support businesses across the UK.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is keen to ensure mass participation sporting events and spectator sports can function effectively once the covid-19 outbreak has subsided. We are engaging regularly across the sector, including working with competition organisers, to understand how sports are planning to return and the circumstances in which they foresee it may be possible for events to go ahead. But we have been clear throughout that this can only happen when it is safe to do so and in line with the public health guidance of at the time.</p><p><strong><br></strong>Advice on sporting events has at all times been in accordance with the latest scientific and medical advice. The Government has been taking a clear, phased approach to tackling the virus, led by our medical experts and our absolute priority is to protect people's health. However the situation continues to evolve and we will update guidance as the medical advice changes.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 27/04/2020 09:00:13 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1187528

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
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: Screening
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 develop antibody testing for covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	34325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>Testing is a crucial part of the United Kingdom’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Government is working on multiple fronts to deliver additional testing capacity into the system. On 4 April 2020, the Government published its testing strategy 'Coronavirus (COVID-19) Scaling up our testing programmes'. The strategy describes in detail the five pillars of work which together will put in place the testing that is mission critical as we fight the battle against COVID-19.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also currently evaluating antibody tests. These tests could be home-based tests that could allow people to find out whether they have had the virus and are now immune, enabling them to go back to work. However, before these tests can be deployed, further work will be conducted to ensure that the antibody tests currently available are capable of this.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 21/04/2020 16:35:07 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1187529

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
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: Screening
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 introduce antibody testing for covid-19 for NHS staff.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	34326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government is scaling up the national effort to boost testing capacity for COVID-19 including increasing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of essential workers to see if they have the virus and introducing antibody testing to see if people have had the virus and are now immune.</p><p> </p><p>We are working towards 100,000 tests a day using spare capacity to test critical key workers and completing the pilot of our new commercial swab testing programme. We will complete our evaluation of the antibody test kits and continue our programme to survey the population to learn more about this virus. Finally, we are building a British diagnostics industry.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is currently engaged with several companies and are urgently testing the quality, accuracy and effectiveness of potential antibody tests with scientific experts and regulators. These tests are still being developed and none yet has been proven to work as we would require. No Government in the world has yet rolled out a full COVID-19 antibody testing programme. Should our clinical testing prove successful, we hope to deploy antibody testing kits in their millions.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 27/04/2020 15:31:20 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1186836

registered interest
date	20/03/2020
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	Universal Credit: Habitual Residence Test
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for universal credit required a habitual residence test; and of those claims how many have been closed as a result of failing that test in each month since July 2018.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	32684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2020 answer text <p>The table below gives UC claims with an associated HRT, whether the claimant passed the HRT, failed or the outcome could not be determined. Of these, the number of UC claims that were closed due to failing the HRT. The UC data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. The data should therefore be treated with caution.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month claim declared</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UC Full Service claims with an associated HRT</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UC Full Service claims closed due to failing the HRT</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-18</p></td><td><p>21,700</p></td><td><p>2,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-18</p></td><td><p>22,700</p></td><td><p>2,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-18</p></td><td><p>25,200</p></td><td><p>2,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-18</p></td><td><p>30,400</p></td><td><p>3,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-18</p></td><td><p>31,800</p></td><td><p>3,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-18</p></td><td><p>27,600</p></td><td><p>3,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-19</p></td><td><p>41,900</p></td><td><p>4,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-19</p></td><td><p>36,200</p></td><td><p>4,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-19</p></td><td><p>37,200</p></td><td><p>4,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-19</p></td><td><p>33,700</p></td><td><p>3,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-19</p></td><td><p>35,900</p></td><td><p>3,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-19</p></td><td><p>33,200</p></td><td><p>3,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-19</p></td><td><p>36,400</p></td><td><p>3,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-19</p></td><td><p>32,500</p></td><td><p>3,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-19</p></td><td><p>36,900</p></td><td><p>3,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-19</p></td><td><p>38,100</p></td><td><p>3,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-19</p></td><td><p>32,900</p></td><td><p>3,400</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li>Figures are taken from Management Information on Universal Credit Full Service claims.</li><li>All figures are rounded to the nearest 100.</li><li>The month used in this data is the month in which the UC claim was declared (regardless of when the closure for the claim occurred because of a failed HRT)</li><li>Information on Universal Credit Full service claims may be subject to future change; this is because claim data may be entered retrospectively for past months. Any retrospective changes are most likely to affect recent months; for this reason, we have provided data up to the end of November 2019.</li><li>Subtracting the number of HRT fails from the total number of UC HRTs undertaken would not provide the number of HRT passes, as this also includes HRTs where the outcome could not be determined, for example, a claim was withdrawn before the HRT result was recorded</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 30/03/2020 16:50:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1186170

registered interest
date	18/03/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking under the Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative to protect women from religious minority communities who are specifically vulnerable to sexual violence.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	31501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK is fully committed to supporting survivors of conflict-related sexual violence and follows a survivor-centred approach. This includes working closely with survivor networks and organisations, including those from religious minority communities, to ensure their perspectives inform PSVI policy and programming. For example, strengthening support for the faith and belief leaders' Declaration of Humanity to tackle stigma faced by survivors and prevent sexual violence in conflict</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 25/03/2020 18:07:37 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1186239

registered interest
date	18/03/2020
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	Statutory Sick Pay: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending statutory sick pay to people who are not self-isolating due to covid-19 but their place of employment has no work as a result of that infection.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
uin	31616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2020 answer text <p>As both the Prime Minister and Chancellor have made clear, the Government will do whatever it takes to support people affected by COVID 19 and we have been clear in our intention that everyone should be supported to do the right thing.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/03/2020 18:06:05 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher

1185692

registered interest
date	17/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for mobilisation of retired Armed Forces personnel to assist with the response to the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	30788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2020 answer text <p>Where retired Armed Forces personnel are members of the ex-Regular Reserve, they have a legal liability for service if so required. Whilst the option to call on them for support exists and may be used to support the UK Government's response to the outbreak, there are currently no plans for any large-scale deployments of ex-Regular Reservists.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 23/03/2020 07:41:55 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan