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1185731

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date	17/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Gaza: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect on the healthcare system in Gaza of the response to the spread of covid-19 in that region.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	30804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>There are currently <del class="ministerial">no</del> <ins class="ministerial">two </ins>known cases of COVID-19 in Gaza. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has delivered essential equipment such as lab testing kits and personal protective equipment and has used DFID-funded Trauma Stabilisation Tents to quarantine suspected COVID-19 patients at the Rafah border crossing. UN agencies are supporting further measures such as the establishment of a field hospital and the creation of a medical checkpoint at the Erez border crossing.</p><p>A widespread outbreak of the virus could overwhelm Gaza’s already overburdened health system - especially given the lack of reliable access to clean water and energy in the strip. We continue to monitor the situation and are working closely with the UN and the international community to ensure agencies are ready to respond to an outbreak.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 25/03/2020 16:25:19 question first ministerially corrected 26/03/2020 17:26:12 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly previous answer version 14688 answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1185732

registered interest
date	17/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to help strengthen the capacity of primary health care systems in low-income countries to respond to the spread of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	30805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>The Department for International Development (DFID) recognises strong and resilient national health systems are vital to global health security and helping to protect the world from infectious diseases, including COVID-19.</p><p>Through our multilateral partnerships, and our regional and national programmes, we support low-income countries to make their health systems, including primary healthcare, stronger and more resilient, and able to prevent, detect and respond to health threats, such as COVID-19.</p><p>UK aid has a longstanding record of global support to countries to prepare for large disease outbreaks. DFID provides continued and additional support to the World Health Organization (WHO) and other UN agencies, using their leadership role, through providing technical assistance, setting norms and standards and tracking progress to help countries address key Health System Strengthening bottlenecks.</p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care’s £21 million International Health Regulations (IHR) Strengthening Project builds capacity in six countries across Africa and Asia to enable them to observe the IHRs and better enable them to prevent, detect and respond to infectious disease threats.</p><p>In addition to the UK’s significant annual funding to the WHO of around £120 million, the UK has committed an additional £10 million to the WHO’s Emergency Flash Appeal through to April and additional funding for other international partners who are helping developing countries develop and deliver their own response to the virus. We are pressing WHO and the UN to develop a follow-up consolidated appeal to address the COVID-19 health and priority secondary impacts developing countries.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 25/03/2020 16:37:25 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1185172

registered interest
date	16/03/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the payment of compensation to people in Northern Ireland affected by the contaminated blood scandal before the conclusion of the Infected Blood Inquiry.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	30214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government believes that we should wait until the Inquiry reports before considering compensation. The Inquiry cannot make a finding of legal liability, but it could make a recommendation that the Government fundamentally increases what it pays to the infected and affected, and that it does so on a different basis. Government will act on the Inquiry's recommendations with the utmost urgency, when it reports.</p><p>In the meantime, we are working with our partners in the devolved nations, including Northern Ireland, and other relevant Government departments to improve the parity of financial support for those infected by the infected blood scandal, across the United Kingdom.</p><p>The Department of Health NI was allocated £1.03 million in January 2020 monitoring, ringfenced for the specific purpose of providing financial support to the infected and affected.</p><p>Of this £610,780 was committed in the interim payments announced on 27 January and has been paid out. Therefore £419,220 remains, which the NI Health Minister committed to allocating before the end of this financial year.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 19/03/2020 17:36:49 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1185228

registered interest
date	16/03/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the data breach of the Learning Records Service database by the GB Group, what steps he is taking to review the criteria used by his Department to allow external organisations access to sensitive data.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	29991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2020 answer text <p>The registration process for access to the Learning Records Service (LRS) has been tightened up significantly:</p><p>Extra checks have been put in place by the UK register of Learning Providers (UKRLP) before an organisation can apply to become a registered training provider (a pre-requisite to registering to use the LRS). They must:</p><ul><li>provide their Companies House number and be a listed as a registered &amp; active company on the CH website, their ICO registration number and an active UKPRN number.</li><li>provide details of the Awarding Organisation (AO) that they are accredited with (which will be confirmed independently by ESFA), the approximate volumes of learners that they expect to register per annum and a detailed description of why they need access. If the the purpose for any reason but to enrol their own students this will only be granted by exception after a follow up discussion.</li><li>submit an LRS agreement that is signed by one of the company directors listed on the Companies House website.</li></ul><p>The LRS registration form has been updated to include all of the above information, and any organisations who have had their access revoked as part of the recent incident will need to resign the updated agreement/registration form. The registration form also includes a section cleared by commercial lawyers that:</p><ul><li>states DFE's right of recourse against licensees to LRS and that we will restrict the rights of licensees with regard to the sublicensing of access to LRS.</li><li>includes text acknowledging/outlining other sanctions.</li></ul><p>Any organisation that requests a change of details (for example when a school becomes an Academy, or when an ITP changes its registered name), must meet the same criteria as the initial registration process.</p><p>The housekeeping tasks to de-register organisations from LRS are being automated.</p><p>Nightly checks are being run routinely now to identify any cases of excessive usage of the LRS, with automatic suspension for those identified. The housekeeping tasks to de-register organisations from LRS will be enhanced going forwards using a weekly data feed from UKRLP.</p><p>We have put in place the following additional checks when new entrants to the market apply to join the UK Register of Learning Providers (UKRLP):</p><ul><li>Each applicant must register with the ICO and include their ICO number in their UKRLP application.</li><li>UKRLP will check each applicant’s website(s) and review their line of business (including the description of their business on Companies House).</li><li>Each new applicant must give a reason for registering with the UKRLP.</li></ul><p>IDP-Connect will continuously review the current acceptance / rejection process and monitor frequent requests. Those currently registered with the UKRLP will be reviewed against these new criteria.</p><p>IDP-Connect and ESFA are now meeting every 2 weeks to review the changes proposed to the UKRLP process and to evaluate progress with respect to the agreed changes.</p><p>All bulk shares of personal data from the department must be independently assessed and reviewed by the department’s Data Sharing Approvals Panel (DSAP). Most requests for data that are granted will be through the Office of National Statistics (ONS) Secure Research Service and will use National Pupil Database (NPD) de-identified individual level ‘standard extracts’ for each academic year.The ONS Secure Research Service (SRS) allows researchers they have accredited under the Digital Economy Act or approved through the ONS Approved Researcher scheme to access secure de-identified data in line with the industry standard “5 Safes. The Five Safes are Safe People, Safe Projects, Safe Settings, Safe Outputs and Safe Data.</p><p>Access to the service is through 1 of the 5 research labs run by the ONS or if the researcher’s location meets ONS security standards and have access to the ONS they may access the data remotely through their own machines.</p><p>DSAP review each request and only approve the request is within the department’s risk appetite and supports the aims of the department.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 01/04/2020 16:55:36 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1184961

registered interest
date	13/03/2020
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	Defibrillators
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made in the creation of a register of defibrillators throughout the UK.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	29229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan recognises the importance of fast and effective action to help save the lives of people suffering a cardiac arrest.</p><p>The British Heart Foundation, in partnership with the Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK), the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives and the National Health Service, have set up the Circuit: the national defibrillator network. This is now live in five ambulance services: the West Midlands, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the East Midlands. The Circuit supports the ambulance services to identify the nearest defibrillator at the time of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. It will also lead to a national dataset which when combined with other relevant national datasets will inform national policy and support research.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 25/03/2020 16:36:11 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1184412

registered interest
date	11/03/2020
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	Israel: Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the testimonies of Israeli army snipers reported in the Ha’aretz newspaper on 6 March 2020, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of reports of the Israeli army’s use of live fire on Palestinians.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	28067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>We have repeatedly made clear to Israel our longstanding concerns about the manner in which the Israel Defense Forces police non-violent protests and the border areas, including the use of live ammunition. We encourage Israel to carry out transparent investigations into whether the use of live fire had been appropriate. While Israel has a legitimate right to self-defence, it is vital that all its actions are proportionate, in line with International Humanitarian Law, and are calibrated to avoid civilian casualties.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 19/03/2020 16:42:08 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1183535

registered interest
date	09/03/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Prime Minister: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of staff employed by No. 10 Downing Street (a) were educated at a private school, (b) are from an ethnic minority group, (c) are women and (d) are apprentices.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	26869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2020 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.</p><p>Information about Cabinet Office staff is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office/about/equality-and-diversity" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office/about/equality-and-diversity</a></p><p>Information on the school background of staff is not held centrally.</p><p>The proportion of Cabinet Office staff actively completing an apprenticeship programme is 1.45%</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 13/03/2020 09:43:36 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1183538

registered interest
date	09/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of homeless deaths in (a) Chester, (b) England and (c) the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	26870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>Every premature death of someone homeless is one too many and we take this matter extremely seriously. It should not happen that people die prematurely and on the street because they are homeless.    <br> <br>We are absolutely committed to ending rough sleeping by the end of this parliament. To achieve this, we are providing £492 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in 2020/2021.This marks a £124 million increase in funding from the previous year.  <br> <br>In December 2018, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) began to produce data on deaths of homeless people in England and Wales. The first release showed homelessness deaths in England and Wales from 2013-2017. Deaths of homeless people were identified from the death registration records held by the ONS, and a statistical method called capture-recapture modelling was applied to estimate the most likely number of additional registrations not identified as homeless people.</p><p>The ONS now publishes official estimates of the number of deaths of homeless people in England and Wales annually. However, the statistics are still classed as experimental. The latest release was October 2019.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 17/03/2020 17:29:17 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1183539

registered interest
date	09/03/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Homelessness: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of homeless deaths in the UK from members of (a) an ethnic minority group and (b) the LGBTQ population in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	26871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 16/03/2020 10:52:02 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ26871.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1183542

registered interest
date	09/03/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Constituencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to implement the recommendations of the 2018 Review of Parliamentary constituency boundaries.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	26872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2020 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave to <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-01-06/431/" target="_blank">PQ 431</a> on the 9th January 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 13/03/2020 09:44:11 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson