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1353029

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date	06/09/2021
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	Pregnancy: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the oral Answer of the Minister for Equalities on 26 May 2021, Official Report, column 356, what actions have resulted from the establishment of the roundtable with the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy to discuss pregnancy and maternity discrimination.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	43624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2021 answer text <p>Since May, we have held a series of stakeholder meetings with key organisations from business and family/women’s representative groups to discuss the issues which pregnant women and new mothers can face in the workplace. These have focused on what an Advisory Board can usefully add to other work in this area – such as the Government’s commitment to extend the redundancy protection currently offered to someone on maternity leave into a period of return to work. The first full meeting of the Board will take place later in September and will agree Terms of Reference and the forward work programme.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 14/09/2021 15:19:12 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1353088

registered interest
date	06/09/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Tigray: Famine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to help alleviate famine in the Tigray.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	43626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>The UK has to date provided £47.7 million in humanitarian support to respond to the conflict in Tigray for healthcare, sanitation and nutrition.</p><p>The humanitarian situation in north east Ethiopia continues to deteriorate. Access to Tigray for aid agencies is negligible owing to bureaucratic impediments to delivery imposed by the government and more than 400,000 people are assessed to be in famine-like conditions. Tigray is the most serious food crisis since famine was declared in Somalia in 2011. Conflict in neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions is now impacting an additional 1.7 million people. The UK's Special Envoy for Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Affairs, Nick Dyer visited Tigray in May and concluded a that region-wide famine in Tigray is likely if conflict intensifies and impediments to the delivery of humanitarian aid continue. Regrettably the operating context has become more fraught and the risks to civilians have increased. The UK reiterates its call for the protection of civilians and unfettered humanitarian access.</p><p>The Foreign Secretary raised concerns on the humanitarian situation and the need for a political dialogue to bring a lasting peace to Tigray directly with Prime Minister Abiy on 5 August. I also raised these issues with the Ethiopian Minister of Peace, Muferihat Kamil Ahmed, on 15 July. The UK Ambassador to Ethiopia has also raised our concerns on multiple occasions to the Government. We have consistently pressed these points in bilateral meetings, in multilateral fora such as the UN Security Council, the Human Rights Council and G7 and worked concertedly with international partners to raise our concerns. At the UN Security Council, I set out on 2 July our concerns at the continued lack of progress in delivering humanitarian access to Tigray.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 10/09/2021 12:55:50 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1349469

registered interest
date	22/07/2021
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	Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July to Question 31509, which pyrotechnics bodies are in discussions with UKAS.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	38376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>While we are aware that pyrotechnics bodies are currently engaging with UKAS, and are in the process of getting accredited, we cannot share any information about those individual bodies due to commercial sensitivities.</p><p><br>We are working closely with the UK Accreditation Service (UKAS) to ensure that a pyrotechnics conformity assessment body is accredited as soon as possible. We will provide an update as soon as a pyrotechnics body has been appointed by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State.</p><p><br>In order to further support businesses in adapting to the new goods regime, we will introduce legislation which will allows CE-marked goods to continue to be placed on the GB market (England, Scotland, and Wales) for a further year until 1 January 2023.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 09/09/2021 16:39:54 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1348332

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Respite Care: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the finding of the Disabled Children’s Partnerships Left Behind report that six in 10 parents remain socially isolated, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing funding for ring-fenced additional respite care for families with disabled children.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	35836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Members for the City of Durham, Bath, and Stockton North to the answer I gave on 2 June 2021 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-05-25/7328" target="_blank">7328</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 35629 35896 35897 question first answered 22/07/2021 15:35:47 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1348333

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the finding of the Disabled Children’s Partnerships report, Left Behind, published 16 July 2021, that over half of local authorities have failed to meet their targets for providing Education, Health and Care plan assessments, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on increasing long-term funding for disabled children’s social care services.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	35837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2021 answer text <p>HM Treasury Ministers regularly meet with other government departments and a range of stakeholders, which includes discussions around support for disabled children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>To support local areas, the government has given over £6 billion in un-ringfenced funding directly to councils to support them with the immediate and longer-term impacts of COVID-19 spending pressures, including children’s services. At last year’s Spending Review, we provided councils with access to over £1bn of spending for social care through £300m of new social care grant and the ability to introduce a 3% adult social care precept. This funding was additional to the £1 billion social care grant announced in 2019 which was maintained in line with the government's manifesto.</p><p> </p><p>We are also increasing education funding for children with complex special educational needs and disabilities by nearly a quarter in two years, to £8 billion this year.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work with other government departments, including Department for Education and the Ministry of Housing, Communities &amp;</p><p>Local Government, to ensure the upcoming Spending Review reflects the needs of children’s social care services.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 26/07/2021 08:31:18 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1348334

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
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	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the average amount of additional (a) therapy and (b) other health support that disabled children will potentially be required to have to help tackle the effect of missed services during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	35838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2021 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. However, as part of COVID-19 recovery planning we are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health services and support, including therapies, to disabled children. In 2020, NHS England and NHS Improvement published guidance making clear that restoration of essential community services must be prioritised for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities aged up to 25 years old and who have an Education Health and Care Plan in place or are going through an assessment for one.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 29/07/2021 16:40:27 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1346765

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme will continue beyond September 2021.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	33296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>The School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme will continue to be offered from September 2021 to all children in Key Stage 1 at state-funded primary schools.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 22/07/2021 16:09:48 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1345841

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
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	Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will allow an extension of the use of CE markings for pyrotechnics to avoid any potential disruption to the UK automotive industry following the UK's departure from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	31509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2021 answer text <p>We are working closely with the UK Accreditation Service (UKAS) to ensure that a UK approved body is accredited as soon as possible.    <br>  <br>We are also aware that pyrotechnics bodies are currently engaging with UKAS and are in the process of getting accredited.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 15/07/2021 13:11:26 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1345879

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
answering body	COP26
answering dept id	210
answering dept short name	COP26
answering dept sort name	COP26
hansard heading	UN Climate Conference 2021: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the President of COP26, with reference to the announcement of 29 June 2021 that the UK will provide vaccinations to COP26 delegates, how the Government plans to vaccinate COP26 delegates ahead of the conference in Glasgow.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	31510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>As announced at the G7 Summit, the UK is working alongside the UNFCCC and other partners, to provide COVID-19 vaccines to Registered COP26 Attendees who would be unable to get them otherwise, including delegates from lower income countries.</p><p>We are now asking all those individuals looking to take up this vaccine offer to identify themselves through the UNFCCC COP registration process as soon as possible and no later than 23 July. Further logistic detail will be provided to the individuals involved via UNFCCC.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/07/2021 15:58:15 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1345880

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
answering body	COP26
answering dept id	210
answering dept short name	COP26
answering dept sort name	COP26
hansard heading	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the President of COP26, with representatives from what countries he (a) has had and (b) plans to have discussions to increase their ambition for offshore wind ahead of COP26.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	31511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2021 answer text <p>Accelerating the global energy transition from coal to clean power is a top priority of the UK COP26 Presidency. We are working with countries to expand the use of clean, renewable energy sources such as onshore and offshore wind, through both international forums and bilateral engagements. We launched the Energy Transition Council to bring together the political, financial and technical leaders of the global power sector to ensure that clean power is the most attractive option for new power generation for all countries. The Council engages with over twenty countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. There has also been engagement on this topic with G7 members, who recently committed to achieving overwhelmingly decarbonised power systems in the 2030s. Wind generation will play an important role in delivering decarbonisation in the UK, and internationally we are working closely with partners including the Global Wind Energy Council.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2021 15:44:22 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse