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1254097

registered interest
date	20/11/2020
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, whether his Department has received representations on (a) reported higher levels of women than men being furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and (b) the potential effect of that matter on the gender pay gap.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	118575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2020 answer text <p>So far, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) has helped 1.2 million employers across the UK furlough 9.6 million jobs, protecting people’s livelihoods. The latest data shows that across the UK, 1.6 million female employees were furloughed at the end of August and 1.5 million male employees. This data is publicly available on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>When designing the CJRS and subsequent reforms, the Government undertook an analysis of how the policies were likely to affect individuals with protected characteristics in line with Public Sector Equality Duties. This was done according to internal procedural requirements for ensuring that equalities considerations inform decisions taken by ministers.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury and HMRC are undertaking an evaluation that will assess the delivery and impact of the CJRS. The Government intends to publish the CJRS evaluation plan in December 2020 and an evaluation report by the end of 2021.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/11/2020 14:20:28 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1249469

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Beer and Public Houses: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what sector specific support is being provided for (a) independent brewers and (b) public houses during the November 2020 covid-19 lockdown restrictions period.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	113220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises that breweries and public houses have been acutely disrupted by recent necessary restrictions to the hospitality sector. That is why the Government has extended the unprecedented package of support measures, to protect businesses and jobs. This includes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>An extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme until the end of March</li><li>Cash grants of up to £3,000 per month to help businesses that are closed with their costs, including paying their supply chains</li><li>£1.1 billion of Discretionary Grant funding for local authorities to target support to the businesses that are most important to their local economy</li><li>Plans to extend existing loan schemes to the end of January and an option to top-up Bounce Back Loans</li><li>A 12-month business rates holiday for all eligible retail, leisure and hospitality businesses in England until the end of March, worth £10 billion in tax foregone.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Independent breweries have and will continue to benefit directly from Government support schemes, and indirectly from the support offered to the pubs and restaurants they supply, protecting jobs in the industry. The Government is continuing to collect evidence on the impact of the pandemic on the sector and to work with businesses and representative groups to inform our efforts to support this sector.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 17/11/2020 11:56:04 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1248778

registered interest
date	04/11/2020
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	Football
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 progress his Department has made on its fan-led review of football.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	111609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2020 answer text <p>Football clubs are the heart of local communities, they have unique social value and many also have a great history. It is vital they are protected and I continue to engage in regular discussions with stakeholders across football, as they tackle the most immediate challenges of the pandemic.</p><p>The Government is committed to undertaking a fan-led review of football governance and is currently considering the scope and structure of the review.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 11/11/2020 15:16:58 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1248779

registered interest
date	04/11/2020
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	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, what plans his Department has to include (a) teachers in SEND schools and (b) other teachers in the winter 2020-21 flu vaccine programme.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	111610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p>The flu vaccination is recommended for those in at risk groups, and frontline health and social care workers who have direct contact with patients, so they can protect themselves and the vulnerable people that they care for. This is based on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. Responsibility for offering a free flu vaccination to frontline health and social care workers rests with their employers, as part of their occupational health responsibility.</p><p>Teachers and other key workers, aside from frontline health and care staff, who are not in an at-risk group are not eligible for a free flu vaccination. However, they may have access to the flu vaccine under their employers’ occupational health scheme.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 18/11/2020 13:15:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1248780

registered interest
date	04/11/2020
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	Smoking: Balconies
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 make it his policy to encourage housing providers to prohibit smoking on private balconies to prevent the problem of smoke drift.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	111611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p>The Health Act 2006 and the subsequent Smoke-free (Premises and Enforcement) Regulations 2006 made it illegal to smoke in public enclosed or substantially enclosed areas and workplaces. The are no current plans to change this legislation. However, organisations can make their own non-smoking policies for outside space which is not captured under the Act or Regulations.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 18/11/2020 13:07:56 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1247307

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Debts: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to support families that have experienced an increase in their household debt as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	109628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government has delivered unprecedented support for living standards during this challenging time, protecting livelihoods with the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, and temporary welfare measures amongst other support.</p><p>With the resurgence of COVID-19, the Government has extended the Coronavirus Jobs Retention Scheme until 31 March 2021. Eligible employees will continue to receive 80% of their usual salary for hours not worked, up to a maximum of £2,500 per month. The Government has increased the overall level of the third grant under the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme to 80 per cent of average trading profits, meaning that the maximum grant available has now increased to £7,500.</p><p>The Government has made changes to the welfare system worth £9.3 billion according to recent OBR estimates. This includes a £20 per week increase to the Universal Credit standard allowance and Working Tax Credit basic element.</p><p>To support renters, the Government has provided a nearly £1 billion increase in Local Housing Allowance Rates and has increased notice periods to six months in all but the most egregious cases, and this will remain in place until at least the end of March 2021. This means that renters now served notice can stay in their homes over winter. Evictions will not be enforced whilst national restrictions are in place over the Christmas period (until 11 January 2021 at the earliest), except for the most egregious cases such as anti-social behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>To support people who may struggle to meet their council tax payments this year, the Government has provided Local Authorities with £500 million. The Government expects that this will provide all recipients of working age local council tax support with a further reduction in their annual council tax bill of £150 this financial year.</p><p>Earlier this year, the Government worked quickly with lenders and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to give people access to payment holidays on their mortgages and consumer borrowing. This is giving consumers a much-needed respite period, in which no repayments are due on these credit products.</p><p>Draft guidance announced by the FCA earlier this month sets out that payment holidays of up to six months will continue to be available to mortgage and consumer credit borrowers who have been impacted by COVID-19 until at least 31 January 2021. Those how have already taken six months of payment holidays and who continue to experience payment difficulties should speak to their lender to agree tailored support.</p><p>The Government recognises that despite these strong protections, some people are struggling with their finances at this challenging time. To help people in problem debt get their finances back on track, an extra £37.8 million support package is being made available to debt advice providers this financial year, bringing this year’s budget for free debt advice in England to over £100 million.</p><p>In May, the Government also announced the immediate release of £65 million of dormant assets funding to Fair4All Finance, an independent organisation that has been founded to support the financial wellbeing of people in vulnerable circumstances. The funding is used to increase access to fair, affordable and appropriate financial products and services for those in financial difficulties.</p><p>And from May 2021 the Breathing Space scheme will offer people in problem debt a pause of up to 60 days on most enforcement action, interest, fees and charges, and will encourage them to seek professional debt advice.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 09/11/2020 11:01:42 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1247308

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the staffing complement of her Department was in (a) October 2020 and (b) October 2019; and what assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's resources to tackle the backlog in Tier 2 visa applications.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	109629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>The latest available data regarding staffing numbers for 2020 is published here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-2020</a>.</p><p>For staffing data for October 2019, the data is published here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-2019</a></p><p>UKVI has diverted significant resources to work through the stock of applications which built up whilst the UK was subject to lockdown restrictions, this has seen a significant increase in the volume of applications decided. The levels of cases outstanding are reducing and output is consistently exceeding the number of new applications submitted.</p><p>As such we consider the resources available to undertake decision making in Tier 2 to be adequate.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 09/11/2020 12:29:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1247318

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Animal Welfare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to maintain animal welfare after the end of the transition period.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	109630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>This Government is committed to high standards of animal welfare. We are working to deliver a number of manifesto commitments that will strengthen our position as a world leader in this field at the end of the Transition Period.</p><p> </p><p>We have committed to introduce tougher sentences for animal cruelty. To deliver this, we are currently supporting the passage of a Private Member’s Bill, the Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill, which increases the maximum custodial penalty for the worst animal cruelty offences from six months or an unlimited fine to five years or an unlimited fine.</p><p> </p><p>We will take advantage of our departure from the EU to deliver our manifesto commitment to end excessively long journeys for slaughter and fattening of livestock. We have previously run a call for evidence on the topic and will launch a full consultation before the end of the year.</p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to work on delivering our other manifesto commitments, including developing new laws on animal sentience and cracking down on the illegal smuggling of dogs and puppies. We will also be consulting in the near future on our commitments to ban pet primates, introduce mandatory cat microchipping and implement the Ivory Act. We have also committed to ban imports from trophy hunting of endangered animals. We ran a call for evidence and consultation on this issue and the Government will be publishing our response to this as soon as we are able to do so.</p><p>In addition to supporting the Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill, we are considering the best legislative vehicle to bring forward these reforms in the near future.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 09/11/2020 17:10:14 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1246592

registered interest
date	23/10/2020
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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with the Chancellor if the Exchequer on extending six month eligibility for jobseeker’s allowance during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	108291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>There have been no discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on extending eligibility for contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance during the covid-19 outbreak.</p><p> </p><p>People who are entitled to contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, or whose entitlement ends before they find employment, may have access to income-related support through Universal Credit. Entitlement will depend on individual circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 05/11/2020 18:12:01 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1246594

registered interest
date	23/10/2020
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on previewing the cap on savings for universal credit recipients.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	108292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2020 answer text <p>We have no plans to make any changes to the £16,000 savings limit, and no recent discussions have taken place to that effect.</p><p> </p><p>The limit strikes a balance between protecting less well-off people and the taxpayer, whilst at the same time encouraging saving.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/11/2020 13:01:37 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova