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1355398

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date	14/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce a 12-month covid-19 recovery visa for people involved in the food and drinks sector supply chains.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	49108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government position remains we will not be introducing a short-term visa route allowing recruitment at or near the minimum wage with no work-based training requirements, such as the ‘Covid recovery visa’ which has been suggested.</p><p>Most of the solutions for labour shortages are likely to be driven by industry, with a big push towards improving pay, conditions and diversity needed. This includes business facing recruitment issues engaging with the Department for Work and Pensions about the support they can provide, rather than turning to the Home Office for immigration based solutions instead.</p><p>The UK labour market has changed rapidly in recent months and we need time to monitor the impact of the new Skilled Worker route, as well as how the economy recovers post-Covid 19<em> </em>including those individuals who will begin returning to the labour market from the furlough scheme.</p><p>The independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) found some roles in the food production, supply and agricultural sectors meet the RQF3 skills threshold for the Skilled Worker route so are eligible to be sponsored for a Skilled Worker visa and can therefore be recruited on global basis. The threshold was previously set at degree-level jobs. Modelling by the MAC suggests the new, broader RQF3 threshold strikes a reasonable balance between controlling immigration and business access to labour.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 20/09/2021 12:04:07 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1355448

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Ventilation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to improve ventilation in schools to inhibit the spread of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	49114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>On 21 August, the department announced that carbon dioxide monitors will be provided to all state-funded nurseries, schools, and colleges from September. Backed by a £25 million government investment, the new monitors will enable staff to act quickly where ventilation is poor and provide reassurance that existing ventilation measures are working.</p><p>The programme will provide nurseries, schools, and colleges with sufficient monitors to take representative readings from across the indoor spaces in their estate, assessing all spaces in a relatively short space of time. On 6 September, the department also provided new information to settings on how to use CO2 monitors to better manage ventilation.</p><p>The department has committed to supplying around 300,000 carbon dioxide monitors across England in the Autumn term. From 6 September, the department started to despatch carbon dioxide monitors to special schools and alternative provision, who have been prioritised to receive their full allocation given their higher-than-average numbers of vulnerable pupils.</p><p>The government has also launched a trial of air purifiers in 30 schools in Bradford, which is designed to assess the technology in schools and whether they could reduce the risk of transmission.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 20/09/2021 16:15:45 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1355456

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
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	Business: Ventilation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he has taken to inform businesses in the (a) retail, (b) hospitality and (c) leisure sectors of the role of ventilation in inhibiting the spread of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	49115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>The Working Safely <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-covid-19" target="_blank">guidance</a> encourages businesses to ensure that their ventilation is adequate as a mitigation against COVID-19. We have amplified messages around ventilation through our wider engagement with businesses including regular discussions with sector bodies and meetings with business representatives.</p><p> </p><p>Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has also used existing communication routes to direct members of their Hospitality Industry Liaison Forum to their ventilation guidance. To increase messaging impact, BEIS added a link to a HSE video on ventilation to our Working Safely guidance. Our guidance is kept under constant review and is updated when new evidence arises.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 20/09/2021 16:32:31 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1354477

registered interest
date	10/09/2021
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average capital cost per megawatt of capacity is for UK offshore wind farms that (a) were commissioned in the last five years, (b) are due to be commissioned in the next five years and (c) was assumed in his Department's 2020 Cost of Electricity Generation report.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	46975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2021 answer text <p>The Department’s 2020 Cost of Electricity Generation Report[1] presents forecasts from 2025 to 2040. In response to point (c), the capital costs assumed in the report are £1.95million per megawatt capacity, in 2018 prices, for a UK offshore wind farm commissioning in 2025. The above can also be taken as the Department’s assumption for (b), wind farms that are due to be commissioned in the next five years.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold historic project data on (a), capital costs for UK offshore wind farms commissioned in the past five years.</p><p> </p><p><em>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-2020</a></em></p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 15/09/2021 16:04:08 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1354478

registered interest
date	10/09/2021
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	Travel: Quarantine
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 publish a breakdown of the cost of £2285 for Government-approved covid-19 quarantine hotels.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	46976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2021 answer text <p>The notional costing from 12 August based on the charge of £2,285 is comprised of: room and board £1,217; security £651; testing £96; liaison £69; airport costs £92; welfare costs £51; transport £38; administration £49; and ‘other’ and contingency £22.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 16/09/2021 13:56:30 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1354480

registered interest
date	10/09/2021
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, with reference to the two-monthly report on the status of the provisions of the Coronavirus Act 2020 published on 21 July 2021, what recent assessment he has made of the merits and demerits of maintaining powers under (a) section 52 and (b) Schedule 22 of that Act.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	46978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government intends to expire section 52 and Schedule 22 of the Coronavirus Act 2020 as it pertains to England.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 16/09/2021 14:09:04 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 21778 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1354522

registered interest
date	10/09/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Travel Restrictions: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will remove Pakistan from the covid-19 red list of countries; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	46980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2021 answer text <p>Decisions on Red, Amber or Green List assignment and associated border measures are taken by Ministers, who take into account Joint Biosecurity Centre risk assessments of countries and territories, alongside wider public health factors.</p><p> </p><p>Further engagement is planned between senior officials and Pakistan’s officials. This is in part to further understand the strategies employed by Pakistan, and to establish stable and long-term access to the outcome of Pakistan’s in-country genomic surveillance and sequencing.</p><p> </p><p>These are intended to be temporary measures and the government keeps data for countries and territories under regular review.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 15/09/2021 07:58:25 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1354535

registered interest
date	10/09/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Air Force: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the condition of Royal Air Force (a) single living accommodation, (b) mess accommodation and (c) service families accommodation; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	46981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>There has been no recent assessment of the totality of single living accommodation, which includes mess accommodation, provided by the Royal Air Force (RAF), but data collected between 2005 and 2020 does provide an overview of their condition. All single living accommodation the RAF provides to its personnel is required to be of a suitable standard and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is currently working to define a Defence Minimum Standard (DMS) against which all single living accommodation will be assessed.</p><p> </p><p>The MOD’s Defence Infrastructure Organisation manages, on a Tri-Service basis, around 50,000 properties in the UK including targeted improvement programmes and planning future requirements. Therefore, it is not possible to separately identify RAF Service Families Accommodation (SFA). However, as at 1 September 2021, of the 99% of SFA that were assessed, 87.8% of the properties were above the Government’s Decent Homes Standard and 8.9% were at the standard. The remaining 2.3% were considered below the standard and not allocated to Service Families.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 20/09/2021 10:35:57 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1354536

registered interest
date	10/09/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Air Force: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of the condition of Royal Air Force service accommodation on (a) flight safety, (b) operational effectiveness and (c) morale; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	46982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>There have been no recent assessments conducted specifically in relation to accommodation issues affecting flight safety and operational effectiveness. However, the annual Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey (AFCAS) includes questions regarding accommodation and morale to enable the MOD to garner the views of Service personnel and act where necessary.</p><p>The most recent report is published on the Gov.UK website at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/armed-forces-continuous-attitude-survey-2021</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 20/09/2021 16:50:43 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1349153

registered interest
date	21/07/2021
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: Death
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 publish the number of daily non-covid-19 deaths for as long as he publishes the number of daily deaths from covid-19 in England.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	37465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>While Public Health England publishes the number of daily deaths following a positive test for COVID-19, monthly mortality analysis and data on daily deaths is published by the Office for National Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 06/09/2021 11:22:01 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker