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1219167

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date	01/07/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will (a) issue guidance to the general public and (b) make a public announcement advising people living in England not to enter Scotland in order to help contain the spread of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	66932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2020 answer text <p>The Government will not be issuing such guidance. It is important that people travelling to Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland adhere to the laws and guidelines of the relevant devolved administrations at all times.</p><p>We will continue to confront the virus as one United Kingdom, but as the virus may be spreading at different speeds across the UK, measures may need to change in different ways and on different timetables.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/07/2020 16:02:48 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1219318

registered interest
date	01/07/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many local authority staff are furloughed in each local authority; and what the cost to the public purse is of furloughed staff in each local authority.
tabling member constituency	Poole
tabling member printed	Sir Robert Syms
uin	66809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2020 answer text <p>Applications for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) opened on Monday 20th April. By midnight 28 June 2020, 1.1m employers had submitted claims to HMRC representing 9.3m employees furloughed and £25.5bn.</p><p> </p><p>On 11 June HMRC released analysis of employer take up, which can be found on GOV.UK. HMRC do not require employers to provide addresses of their employees as part of their CJRS claim and so is unable to provide an accurate picture of employee take up by location.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/07/2020 09:29:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	245 label Biography information for Sir Robert Syms

1219599

registered interest
date	01/07/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scottish Government: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the level of additional fiscal support allocated to the Scottish Government in response to the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Marco Longhi
uin	903985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>We are working closely with the Scottish Government to ensure it has the necessary funds to help secure jobs and protect the economy through the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>The Scottish Government has been allocated a total of nearly £3.8 billion of Barnett consequentials to support public services and businesses, with over £2.3 billion for business support alone.</p><p> </p><p>This is on top of the unprecedented UK-wide measures the Chancellor announced since the start of the pandemic, including help for the self-employed, three-month mortgage holidays, funding for research, and extending Statutory Sick Pay.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes South answering member printed Iain Stewart question first answered 01/07/2020 14:50:46 answering member 4015 label Biography information for Iain Stewart
tabling member	4789 label Biography information for Marco Longhi

1219600

registered interest
date	01/07/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	UK Relations with EU: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions he has had with the Prime Minister on the UK’s future relationship with the EU in relation to Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	903986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland speaks to the Prime Minister regularly on a variety of areas of interest to Scotland, including the future relationship with the EU.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes South answering member printed Iain Stewart grouped question UIN 903997 question first answered 01/07/2020 14:51:55 answering member 4015 label Biography information for Iain Stewart
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1219601

registered interest
date	01/07/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Industry: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing additional packages of support for industries by sector in Scotland as the covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	903995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>The UK Government package, as well as an additional £3.8 billion in funding for the Scottish Government through the Barnett Formula, has been significant.</p><p> </p><p>The furlough and self-employed support schemes have saved more than three quarters of a million jobs in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>It is right that the furlough scheme has been extended until October, and now made available on a part-time basis. This will provide much-needed reassurance to businesses across Scotland. Scottish businesses have been very clear that what they really want is to get back to work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes South answering member printed Iain Stewart question first answered 01/07/2020 14:53:01 answering member 4015 label Biography information for Iain Stewart
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1219602

registered interest
date	01/07/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	UK Relations With EU: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions he has had with the Prime Minister on the UK’s future relationship with the EU in relation to Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	903997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland speaks to the Prime Minister regularly on a variety of areas of interest to Scotland, including the future relationship with the EU.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes South answering member printed Iain Stewart grouped question UIN 903986 question first answered 01/07/2020 14:51:55 answering member 4015 label Biography information for Iain Stewart
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1219603

registered interest
date	01/07/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Ethnic Groups: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If he will make a comparative assessment of the effect of covid-19 on the BAME community in Scotland and England.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	903999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>Both Public Health England and Public Health Scotland have published early analysis looking at the impact of COVID-19 on BAME Communities.</p><p> </p><p>There is much more work to do to understand what is driving these disparities and how the different risk factors interact, and we are absolutely determined to get to the bottom of this and find ways of closing that gap.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government has committed to commission further research and Scottish Government have established a group on this issue.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes South answering member printed Iain Stewart question first answered 01/07/2020 14:53:59 answering member 4015 label Biography information for Iain Stewart
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1219605

registered interest
date	01/07/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Business: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the economic support available for Scottish businesses during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Arundel and South Downs
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffith
uin	903978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland is in regular contact with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and all members of the Cabinet to discuss how best the UK Government can support Scottish businesses during the Covid-19 crisis.</p><p> </p><p>As well as an additional £3.8 billion in funding for the Scottish Government through the Barnett Formula, the furlough and self-employed support schemes have saved more than three quarters of a million jobs in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes South answering member printed Iain Stewart question first answered 01/07/2020 15:31:56 answering member 4015 label Biography information for Iain Stewart
tabling member	4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith

1219606

registered interest
date	01/07/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Disinformation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps the Government is taking to help tackle disinformation in the context of the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	904220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave earlier today to the hon. Members for Blaenau Gwent (Nick Smith) and Bradford South (Judith Cummins) during Defence oral questions.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 06/07/2020 15:08:08 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1219680

registered interest
date	01/07/2020
answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
answering dept id	204
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
hansard heading	House of Lords: Reform
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to any societal changes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, what plans there are to establish a Select Committee to consider (1) the membership, and (2) the role, of the House of Lords.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
uin	HL6343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>There are no current plans for the appointment of a new committee to consider these matters. The Liaison Committee runs regular exercises to invite proposals from members for special inquiry committee topics, and I would encourage anyone with particular suggestions for new committee activity to make them in this context.</p><p>The Lord Speaker’s committee on the Size of the House published its first report in October 2017, and has since published updates in 2018 and 2019. It is anticipated that this committee will reconvene soon to consider further the size of the membership of the House.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 15/07/2020 14:37:06 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
tabling member	4285 label Biography information for Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville