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1313890

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date	12/05/2021
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Religious Buildings: Music
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he publish a timescale for allowing choral singing and performance to resume in English cathedrals and churches as covid-19 restrictions are eased; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>The roadmap to reopening published on 22 February set out the steps by which restrictions on activities will be lifted and the considerations that will determine the rate of progress. Singing, playing some musical instruments, shouting and physical activity increases the risk of transmission through small droplets and aerosols and the cumulative effect of aerosol transmission means the more people involved, the higher the risk of transmission. <br> <br> From 17 May, when Step 3 of the roadmap is taken, indoors in a Place of Worship a group of up to 6 amateur singers can perform, or rehearse for performance. There is no limit on the number of professional singers but they should follow guidance for the performing arts. Outdoors, the congregation may join in with singing in multiple groups of up to 30. Congregation members should continue to follow social distancing rules. A decision on whether to allow larger performances and communal singing in a place of worship will be taken as we approach Step 4 of the roadmap, no earlier than 21 June.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 19/05/2021 16:05:29 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1307522

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Waste Disposal: Water
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 assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of the Australian practice of using drainage nets to collect plastic and other small objects to prevent them from entering rivers and seas.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	178790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>Waste water treatment in the UK is largely determined by the requirements of the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994. The Regulations have the objective of protecting the environment from the adverse effects of wastewater by setting minimum treatment levels supplemented by additional requirements to limit pollution from discharges. All discharges to the water environment require a permit issued by the Environment Agency under the Environmental Permitting Regulations. The Environment Agency will include the necessary conditions in water company discharge permits to limit sewage-related debris from entering rivers and seas. In the UK, rather than the Australian practice of using drainage nets, this is achieved through engineering design and the use of screens at the point of discharge to the environment.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 20/04/2021 12:55:21 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1304452

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps her Department is taking to prevent migrants from unlawfully crossing the English Channel; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	913717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>The danger to life from channel crossings and the criminal activity they fund is simply unacceptable.</p><p>Journeys are often illegally-facilitated and totally unnecessary, France is a safe country with a fully functioning asylum system.</p><p>We are working tirelessly to make this route unviable.</p><p>We are also introducing legislation to fix our broken asylum system and create a fairer and firmer system.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/03/2021 16:29:50 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1301837

registered interest
date	11/03/2021
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	Dental Services: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether dentists will be able to return to normal working practices in (a) Step 3 or (b) Step 4 of the national covid-19 roadmap.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	167158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2021 answer text <p>We are working with NHS England and NHS Improvement to increase levels of dental activity as fast as is safely possible. Contractual arrangements for the first six months of the 2021/22 financial year have been introduced by NHS England and NHS Improvement. The revised unit of dental activity threshold set at 60% is based on data that indicates practices may now have capacity to safely achieve more dental activity. Arrangements will be monitored on a monthly basis and are expected to be in place for six months in order to provide increased stability for dental practices. National Health Service commissioners have the discretion to make exceptions, for instance in cases where a dental practice has been impacted by staff being required to self-isolate.</p><p> </p><p>We are working to address oral health inequalities. NHS England and NHS Improvement have provided local commissioners with a flexible commissioning toolkit to illustrate how best to use current flexibilities in commissioning to target capacity on improving access to urgent care and delivering care to high risk patient groups.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 08/04/2021 10:39:58 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1299369

registered interest
date	03/03/2021
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: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, further to the Answer of 3 March to Question 154738, what support his Department is providing for (a) research on and (b) trials of vaccines offering immunity to covid-19 which can be delivered by gradual absorption through the skin using an adhesive patch.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	162509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2021 answer text <p>The Department has not currently commissioned any research into COVID-19 vaccines which can be delivered through an adhesive patch but the National Institute for Health Research, as the biggest public funder of health research in the United Kingdom, continues to welcome funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including on COVID-19 vaccine related research.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/03/2021 13:23:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1299371

registered interest
date	03/03/2021
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	Dental Services
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 issue guidance to dentists on when they might be expected to return to normal working.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	162510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2021 answer text <p>Dentistry has been particularly affected by the risk of COVID-19 transmission due to the number of aerosol generating procedures carried out. This has resulted in the need for an enhanced level of personal protective equipment and reduced throughput to allow for thorough cleaning and resting of rooms between patients, as set out in Public Health England’s Infection Prevention and Control guidance.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement and the Chief Dental Officer for England to increase levels of service, as fast as is safely possible. We have been closely monitoring what has been possible and on 29 March announced that the threshold for full National Health Service contractual payment would be raised to 60% of normal activity. We continue to explore what more can be done to increase capacity including piloting pre-appointment testing.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 162549 question first answered 08/04/2021 11:23:38 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1289537

registered interest
date	24/02/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Streethay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether HS2 Ltd still plans to tunnel the railway under the A38 immediately east of Streethay near Lichfield.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	157950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>The alignment of the new railway is unchanged from when Parliament passed the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that whilst the railway itself is all below ground level, it is not a “tunnel” under the A38 as such; an overbridge will be constructed to take the dual carriageway over the new railway, which will pass under the A38 immediately to the east of Streethay housing, just at the point where the slip roads to/from Burton Road meet the dual carriageway.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 02/03/2021 15:46:40 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1288143

registered interest
date	22/02/2021
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	Rivers: Navigation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the guidance for riparian owners published by the Environment Agency entitled Living on the Edge, what the legal basis is for the statement in that guide that there is no public right of navigation on most non-tidal watercourses.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	156252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>The legal position is complex. It is the Government’s view that those seeking to navigate inland rivers for recreational purposes where there is no navigation authority should establish that they have a legal right to do so, either through voluntary agreement with riparian landowners or otherwise.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 02/03/2021 15:26:44 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1287103

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing for (a) research on and (b) trials of oral vaccines offering immunity to covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	154738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2021 answer text <p>Through a joint rolling research call for COVID-19 research between the National Institute for Health Research and UK Research and Innovation, funding of over £500,000 has been committed to a study looking at the safety and immunogenicity of two candidate COVID-19 vaccines administered to the respiratory tract in aerosol form, with an expected end date in August 2021.</p><p>In addition, Innovate UK, have been managing the delivery of £75 million of the £110 million Department-funded UK Vaccine Network programme. Nine Departmental projects within this portfolio were repurposed to identify other COVID-19 vaccines solutions. Also, two Innovate UK grants worth over £2.2 million in total, were awarded to Stabilitech, now known as IosBio, to assess its COVD-19 vaccine candidate that has an oral capsule delivery system in animal efficacy studies. This technology is now being tested in participants in clinical trials in South Africa and the United States.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/03/2021 16:21:42 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1286290

registered interest
date	11/02/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Platinum Jubilee 2022: Medals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to issue a medal to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee on 6 February 2022; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	153113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>On Thursday 12 November 2020 plans were announced to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in June 2022. This will include the issue of a Platinum Jubilee medal. The medal will be awarded to people who work in public service including representatives of the Armed Forces, the emergency services and the prison services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/02/2021 09:17:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant