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1240515

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
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	NHS: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with his Cabinet colleagues on ensuring that the NHS and social care sectors are adequately resourced during winter 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	907134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>This Government is committed to supporting the National Health Service and wider social care sector this winter, as it has throughout this year. In July, the Government announced £3 billion in additional funding, alongside £450 million for accident and emergency department upgrades and expansions. Similarly, we are supporting adult social care with a further £546 million of infection control funding over this winter. Where health policy is devolved, the devolved nations have benefitted from the appropriate Barnett consequentials.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/10/2020 16:13:31 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1238362

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of updating the Government's passport renewal website to make applicants aware that they can enter a family or friend's email address if they do not have an email address themselves.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	96102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2020 answer text <p>While people can provide the email address of a third party as part of their online passport application, for security purposes Her Majesty’s Passport Office strongly recommends the use of a personal email address. As such, there are no plans to change the guidance relating to this.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 02/10/2020 13:12:24 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1220539

registered interest
date	03/07/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans UK: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the news story on the Veterans UK section of gov.uk entitled, COVID-19: changes to Veterans UK Services, published on 19 March, what steps he is taking to ensure that Veterans UK will be able to offer their full range of services as soon as possible as covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	68730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2020 answer text <p>Veterans UK has helped over 13,000 veterans since 23 March 2020.</p><p> </p><p>All regular War Pension, War Widows Pension, Armed Forces Compensation and Armed Forces Pension payments continue to be paid into nominated bank accounts.</p><p> </p><p>The full range of veterans' support services, including the Veterans UK Helpline and Welfare Service, has continued to be provided throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and all requests for help have been responded to.</p><p> </p><p>Veterans Welfare Service and Defence Transition Services have continued to operate remotely and provide all services except face to face meetings. Work is ongoing to assess when the face to face service might be able to begin again and will be based on Government Guidance and risk assessments for staff and veterans.</p><p> </p><p>Staff have been returning in a progressive manner to the office since this became possible by implementing the Government advice and maintaining social distancing in the workplace.</p><p> </p><p>Veterans UK are currently in the process of assessing outstanding workloads and developing a recovery programme to process new and existing claims and appeals as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 08/07/2020 08:52:34 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1218279

registered interest
date	26/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what economic assessment he undertook of the potential effect on Scottish universities of capping numbers of students from England attending Scottish universities before making that decision.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	65160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, and I have regular meetings with Scottish ministers, and with ministers from all the devolved administrations, about higher education issues. These discussions have included the development of student number controls policy. Departmental officials also have regular meetings and discussions with their counterparts.</p><p>Student number controls are a direct response to the COVID-19 outbreak. They are designed to minimise the impact to the financial threat posed by the outbreak and they form a key part of the package of measures to stabilise the admissions system. We want to make sure that university places are available to all who are qualified by ability and attainment to pursue them and who wish to do so.</p><p>These controls are a temporary measure and will be in place for one academic year only. Student number controls for institutions in the devolved administrations only apply to the number of English-domiciled entrants who will be supported with their tuition fees through the Student Loans Company. They are set at a level which will allow every institution to take more first year English students than they took last year. The funding of English-domiciled students is not a devolved matter, and it is right and fair that this policy should apply as consistently as possible wherever they are studying in the UK.</p><p>Ministers will continue to work closely with the devolved administrations on strengthening and stabilising the higher education system following the COVID-19 outbreak.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 01/07/2020 16:25:45 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1218280

registered interest
date	26/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the decision to cap the number of English students attending university in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	65161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2020 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, and I have regular meetings with Scottish ministers, and with ministers from all the devolved administrations, about higher education issues. These discussions have included the development of student number controls policy. Departmental officials also have regular meetings and discussions with their counterparts.</p><p>Student number controls are a direct response to the COVID-19 outbreak. They are designed to minimise the impact to the financial threat posed by the outbreak and they form a key part of the package of measures to stabilise the admissions system. We want to make sure that university places are available to all who are qualified by ability and attainment to pursue them and who wish to do so.</p><p>These controls are a temporary measure and will be in place for one academic year only. Student number controls for institutions in the devolved administrations only apply to the number of English-domiciled entrants who will be supported with their tuition fees through the Student Loans Company. They are set at a level which will allow every institution to take more first year English students than they took last year. The funding of English-domiciled students is not a devolved matter, and it is right and fair that this policy should apply as consistently as possible wherever they are studying in the UK.</p><p>Ministers will continue to work closely with the devolved administrations on strengthening and stabilising the higher education system following the COVID-19 outbreak.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 02/07/2020 14:15:23 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1202968

registered interest
date	11/06/2020
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of delays by the Child Maintenance Service in pursuing payments for resident parents during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	58733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises that the income of many separated parents is being impacted by the public health emergency and some receiving parents may receive less maintenance as a result of a paying parent’s drop in income.</p><p> </p><p>Paying parents are still expected to pay child maintenance throughout this period. Our priority is to maintain the flow of maintenance that is currently being paid, by easing the financial pressure on paying parents and ensuring that we transfer the payments as quickly as possible to receiving parents.</p><p> </p><p>In order to ensure that receiving parents do not lose out in the long run, we will update calculations as soon as possible and collect any unpaid amounts that may have accrued. The small minority who might be found to be abusing the system at this difficult time could potentially find themselves subject to the full extent of our enforcement powers once the emergency passes.</p><p> </p><p>Measures have been introduced to support both paying and receiving parents, whose income drops as a result of the public health emergency. These include increasing the standard rate of Universal Credit and working tax credit for this year by over £1000 per year, benefiting over 4 million of the most vulnerable households. We have also increased the Local Housing Allowance rates for Universal Credit and Housing Benefit claimants so that it covers the cheapest third of local rents – which is on average £600 in people’s pockets.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/06/2020 12:45:47 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 29528 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1202969

registered interest
date	11/06/2020
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Secondment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of her Department's staff have been seconded to other Government departments during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	58734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2020 answer text <p>As the Department for Work and Pensions is a critical department during the COVID-19 outbreak, and has experienced a significant increase in demand for our services, it has undertaken a small number of secondments and loans of members of staff to other Government departments.</p><p> </p><p>As at April 2020, the Department had 78,138 staff and we have seconded or loaned out only a very low number of individuals.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 06/07/2020 16:27:05 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 29529 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1202971

registered interest
date	11/06/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the length of response times for decisions on visa applications.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	58735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2020 answer text <p>Data on visa processing times, including the percentage and number of visas that are processed within service standards, is usually published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data. However, due to Covid-19, it has not been possible to prepare and quality assure all of the data tables which usually make up the publication. Priority has therefore been given to those with the highest degree of public interest. We anticipate that all Q1 2020 data will be published as part of the Q2 2020 publication in August.</p><p> </p><p>On 28 May the Home Office published a statistical report on the impact of Covid-19 on the immigration system, up to April 2020, which shows the impact on the visa system. This report can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-relating-to-covid-19-and-the-immigration-system-may-2020.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 16/06/2020 08:42:03 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1202975

registered interest
date	11/06/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Secondment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of her Department's work force has been seconded to other departments during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	58736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2020 answer text <p><em>Based on the central data we hold, the Home Office has deployed 431 people to other government departments to support COVID-19 work. At 10 June 2020, this represents 1.23% of the workforce.</em></p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 16/06/2020 16:52:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1176335

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
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	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department takes to ensure that claimants who are found to be eligible for employment support allowance but don't receive payments due to their household income, are encouraged to continue to apply to make sure that they receive their National Insurance contributions.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	12959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) the “new style” benefit is solely based on the claimant’s national insurance (NI) contributions. The income-related strands of the benefit have been removed. This means that New Style ESA (NS ESA) can be paid alongside Universal Credit (UC), where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who don’t qualify for UC, due to the level of their household income, might still qualify for NS ESA.</p><p> </p><p>If eligible for NS ESA, a claimant will be awarded a Class 1 NI credit for each complete benefit week that the benefit is in payment. A benefit week runs from Sunday to Saturday.</p><p> </p><p>Where there is no entitlement to NS ESA, a person may still be entitled to NI credits provided they continue to meet the eligibility conditions.</p><p> </p><p>Information about claiming NI credits is included in the decision letter sent to the claimant informing them that they are not entitled to ESA. It is also available on Gov.UK.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/02/2020 17:26:03 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant