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1245553

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Employee Ownership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value was of shares issued through Share Incentive Plans by (a) partnership, (b) matching (c) free and (d) dividend shares in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	106984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>Share Incentive Plans (SIPs) is a tax-advantaged employee share scheme offered by the Government.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC publishes annual statistics on Employee Share Schemes, including the value of shares, which are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employee-share-schemes-statistics#national-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employee-share-schemes-statistics#national-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the value of awarded shares for the last four years by type of share. Figures for 2014-15 are not available due to the introduction of the Employment Related Securities service.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1- Initial value of SIP shares by share type (£m)</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>SIP – initial value of awarded shares <strong>(£m)</strong></p></td><td><p>Free shares</p></td><td><p>Partnership shares</p></td><td><p>Matching shares</p></td><td><p>Dividend shares</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14-15</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15-16</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>510</p></td><td><p>310</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16-17</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>430</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17-18</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>300</p></td><td><p>160</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18-19</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>310</p></td><td><p>170</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 02/11/2020 11:57:27 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1245554

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Employee Ownership and Save as You Earn
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to widen participation in the (a) Save As you Earn and (b) Share Incentive Plan all-employee share schemes.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	106985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government wants to promote employee share ownership in the UK, which is why it offers tax advantaged employee share schemes such as Save As You Earn (SAYE) and Share Incentive Plans (SIPs).</p><p> </p><p>Employers can offer these schemes to share financial rewards with staff who choose to take part. This supports recruitment and retention and helps to encourage employee productivity. The Government keeps all the employee share schemes under review.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018/19, 310,000 employees were granted share options under a SAYE scheme, and around 2.84 million employees were awarded or purchased partnership shares under a SIP.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the employee share schemes for the 2020/21 tax year will not be available until 2021. However, the Government has taken steps to support employees in a SIP or SAYE scheme through the COVID-19 outbreak. This includes extending the payment holiday terms for employees in SAYE plans where the employee is furloughed, has had working hours reduced or has taken unpaid leave during the pandemic, and allowing furlough payments to constitute as salary so SIP contributions can continue to be deducted from these payments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 106986 question first answered 02/11/2020 15:22:00 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1245555

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Employee Ownership and Save as You Earn: Coronavirus
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 effect of the covid-19 outbreak on employee participation levels in (a) Save As You Earn and (b) Share Incentive Plan schemes.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	106986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government wants to promote employee share ownership in the UK, which is why it offers tax advantaged employee share schemes such as Save As You Earn (SAYE) and Share Incentive Plans (SIPs).</p><p> </p><p>Employers can offer these schemes to share financial rewards with staff who choose to take part. This supports recruitment and retention and helps to encourage employee productivity. The Government keeps all the employee share schemes under review.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018/19, 310,000 employees were granted share options under a SAYE scheme, and around 2.84 million employees were awarded or purchased partnership shares under a SIP.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the employee share schemes for the 2020/21 tax year will not be available until 2021. However, the Government has taken steps to support employees in a SIP or SAYE scheme through the COVID-19 outbreak. This includes extending the payment holiday terms for employees in SAYE plans where the employee is furloughed, has had working hours reduced or has taken unpaid leave during the pandemic, and allowing furlough payments to constitute as salary so SIP contributions can continue to be deducted from these payments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 106985 question first answered 02/11/2020 15:22:00 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1245593

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
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	Animals: Exports
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 estimate he has made of the number of additional veterinary professionals required to process animal health export certificates prior to consignment after the end of the transition period in the event that a deal is not reached with the EU.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	106987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr on 5 October 2020, PQ 96843.</p><p> </p><p>[https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-09-29/96843]</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 02/11/2020 16:23:08 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1244868

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
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	Contact Tracing: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on the sharing of contact tracing data between (a) Serco and (b) other private sector contractors and local public health departments.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	106327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2020 answer text <p>The Department and Public Health England (PHE) work in partnership with local authorities and with the support of contractors to provide contact tracing services. The Department is the data controller for the purposes of data protection legislation. Contact tracing data that is shared between the Department, PHE, contractors and local public health departments is handled in strict confidence and in line with data protection laws.</p><p>Ensuring the privacy of individuals and the security of their personal data is a priority for the Government and for NHS Test and Trace.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/12/2020 10:00:05 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1244870

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
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	Contact Tracing: Coronavirus
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 allow local public health departments to write the scripts for telephone calls to contacts of people who have tested positive for covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	106328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2020 answer text <p>NHS Test and Trace adopts a continuous improvement approach to develop the scripts used by contact tracers on an ongoing basis. These have been designed by expert contact tracers at Public Health England. Local teams have access to central scripts and can adapt them to mirror the way in which they are following-up cases. This includes the use of a piloting approach to trial the impacts of alternative scripts, or adjustments within scripts, to understand whether these improve the public experience of the service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 106329 question first answered 01/12/2020 12:31:22 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1244871

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
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	Contact Tracing: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of reports from local public health departments that the adequacy of the telephone script used in tracing the contacts of people who have tested positive for covid-19 affects (a) the proportion of contacts traced and (b) the compliance of those people contacted with self-isolation rules.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	106329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2020 answer text <p>NHS Test and Trace adopts a continuous improvement approach to develop the scripts used by contact tracers on an ongoing basis. These have been designed by expert contact tracers at Public Health England. Local teams have access to central scripts and can adapt them to mirror the way in which they are following-up cases. This includes the use of a piloting approach to trial the impacts of alternative scripts, or adjustments within scripts, to understand whether these improve the public experience of the service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 106328 question first answered 01/12/2020 12:31:22 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1244413

registered interest
date	19/10/2020
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	Leisure: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons leisure centres, gyms and soft play areas are (a) required to close in the Liverpool City Region and (b) permitted to stay open in Lancashire under the highest level covid-19 restrictions.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	105359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2020 answer text <p>The package of measures to be implemented in the Liverpool City Region when it moved to Local Covid Alert Level ‘very high’ was developed in close consultation with local authorities, taking into account local circumstances and insight. Following a request from the local authorities to revisit that package we have agree to re-open gyms and soft play areas in the Liverpool City Region, as they are currently in Lancashire.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 29/10/2020 09:46:40 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 56514 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1244245

registered interest
date	16/10/2020
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: Gyms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons gyms are (a) required to close in the Liverpool City Region and (b) permitted to stay open in Lancashire under the highest level covid-19 restrictions.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	104721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2021 answer text <p>Hygiene and social distancing measures are vitally important for reducing the transmission risk of COVID-19. We know that the virus spreads readily in any indoor environment where members of different households and/or support bubbles spend time together, so the transmission risk in indoor settings, such as gyms, remains high.</p><p>We recognise the efforts that have been made to reduce risk across a range of venues. As decisions are based on a number of factors, it is possible for variation to exist between different local authority areas<strong>. </strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 27/01/2021 10:42:49 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 56051 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1243330

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
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: Gyms and Leisure Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the evidential basis is for the decision to close (a) gyms, (b) leisure centres and (c) fitness and dance studios as part of the covid-19 restrictions announced on 12 October 2020.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	103492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2020 answer text <p>Restrictions announced on 12 October increase the restrictiveness of social distancing measures and in particular target the chain of transmission. Due to the impact of these new measures, we are working with local authorities to shape the set of restrictions in areas under the ‘Very High’ alert level.</p><p>Gyms, leisure centres, fitness and dance studios pose a higher risk of transmission, due to the increased risk of aerosol transmission and the likelihood of prolonged exposure, therefore some local authorities may decide to close these venues if they reach the ‘Very High’ alert level. Throughout this crisis, the Government, and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, have provided robust scientific evidence and advice to guide decisions regarding the measures taken to address the COVID-19 pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 22/10/2020 14:44:37 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 55281 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson