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1461227

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date	10/05/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to immediately communicate to schools that they can use any stocks of lateral flow tests held locally; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2022 answer text <p>Public health advice continues to be that testing in education and childcare settings is no longer needed. Most infectious diseases in education and childcare settings can be managed by following the advice in UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) updated health protection in education and childcare settings guidance. Students and staff should follow UKHSA’s advice for those who have symptoms.</p><p>As individuals are now mixing in an otherwise open society, regular testing within school and colleges is no longer as effective as it once was. Instead, the most effective protection against severe disease from COVID-19 for everyone, including those at higher risk from COVID-19, is to get vaccinated.</p><p>Although settings may still have some unused test kits in stock, they should not continue to hand these out to staff or students or dispose of them (unless they have reached their expiry date).</p><p>The department are currently working with UKHSA to explore the options for removal of testing resources no longer required and repurpose or redeploy them as much as possible based on clinical need prioritisation.</p><p>In the meantime, settings should retain any surplus stock and may wish to note this in their contingency plans. The department has published emergency planning and responce guidance for education and childcare settings here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/emergency-planning-and-response-for-education-childcare-and-childrens-social-care-settings" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/emergency-planning-and-response-for-education-childcare-and-childrens-social-care-settings</a>.</p><p>The department is also aware that some schools and colleges have reported finding the recruitment of invigilators more challenging this year. We are working with exam boards to monitor the risk and have supported recruitment by sharing The Exams Office’s vacancy map with pools of invigilators like parents and higher education students.</p><p>The Joint Council for Qualifications has published updated guidance for centres managing exams in case of invigilator shortage. This includes information about varying start times; alternative sites; invigilation ratios; use of subject teachers as invigilators; addressing challenges for individual candidates; and remote invigilation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 161 question first answered 18/05/2022 15:30:54 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1460328

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
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	Domestic Abuse: Mental Health 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 will make it his policy to assess the (a) length of waiting times for women domestic abuse survivors needing to access specialist mental health support and (b) levels of partnership working between (i) health bodies and (ii) specialist domestic abuse services; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	160472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 28/04/2022 09:40:22 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1460329

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
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	Domestic Abuse: Mental Health 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 will make it his policy to provide a minimum of £409 million per year for domestic abuse services in England for survivors of domestic abuse in respect of their mental health needs and to holistically support their recovery; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	160473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 28/04/2022 11:23:07 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1459940

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
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	Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to (a) publish and (b) lay before Parliament the environmental principles policy statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	158921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>We will publish the environmental principles draft policy statement and lay it before Parliament as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/04/2022 06:42:43 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1460181

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
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	Biodiversity
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 he has made of the unique biodiversity loss challenges facing each sector of the economy, including those which go beyond deforestation; and if he will make it his policy to issue guidance on sectoral pathways to a nature positive economy.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	158922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government has committed to leave the environment in a better state than we found it, and recognises the unique biodiversity loss challenges faced by every sector of our economy.</p><p>Through the Environment Act, the Government is introducing a statutory cycle of monitoring, planning and reporting on Environmental Improvement Plans (EIPs). The Outcome Indicator Framework provides one method of reporting on the progress of the EIP. The Framework draws together a comprehensive suite of measures which collectively describe environmental change as it relates to the ten goals of the 25 Year Environment Plan (which will become the first EIP).</p><p>The Government has introduced a significant number of policies across the economy to support sectors to recover nature, from biodiversity net gain to environmental land management schemes. In 2018 the Green Book incorporated reference to natural capital for the first time. The 2020 version of the Green Book incorporated as its supplementary guidance Defra's 'Enabling a Natural Capital Approach' (ENCA) which provides further data, guidance, and tools to support policymakers in every Government Department on how to consider natural capital in all decision-making.</p><p>In our 2019 Green Finance Strategy, the government committed to transforming the frameworks for financial decision making. This includes supporting the finance sector to develop the tools and skills to price climate and biodiversity risk into financial models. As part of the strategy, we set a clear expectation for the finance sector to implement the recommendations of the global Taskforce on Climate related Finance Disclosures, to ensure that risks are properly understood. We also committed to catalyse international action on nature-related financial disclosures.</p><p>Since the publication of the Strategy, we have increased our ambition and accelerated the pace including the Chancellor's announcement in November 2020 setting a timetable for climate disclosures to become mandatory by 2024 and through the launch of a global market-led Taskforce on Nature Related Disclosures. The Chancellor also announced plans to legislate to create a Green Taxonomy, to provide clear guidelines to investors on the sectors, technologies and activities that can be considered compatible with the transition to a nature-positive economy in line with our long-term environmental policies. As part of the Strategy, we also set up a Green Finance Institute in partnership with the City of London to support and leverage the skills in our world leading financial sector.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/04/2022 11:16:15 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1460182

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Environment Protection
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 potential merits of incorporating and implementing just transition principles into plans for Sustainable Disclosure Requirements as part of the Green Finance Roadmap.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	158923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The document ‘Greening Finance: A Roadmap to Sustainable Investing’ sets out the Government’s plan to introduce coordinated Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) across the economy.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the Roadmap, the Government intends to green the financial system in phases. The first is informing investors and consumers – addressing the information gaps in the market and ensuring a flow of decision-useful information on sustainability factors from corporates to financial market participants. This is the main aim of SDR: to increase transparency for market participants to ensure they have the information they need to factor sustainability into their investment decisions.</p><p> </p><p>Phase two in the Roadmap is about acting on that information. The government set out its expectation that, as this information becomes available and develops over time, the UK’s investment sector – investors, asset managers, asset owners, and the service providers that support them – will have the data to act as effective and responsible stewards of capital.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 28/04/2022 07:10:14 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1460191

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
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	Outdoor Recreation
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 Answer of 19 April 2022 to Question 148359 on Outdoor Recreation which stated that there are no plans to release the Agnew Review in a consolidated way, if he will place a copy of the (a) final report and (b) recommendations of the review, otherwise known as the Access to the Outdoors Commission, in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	158924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/04/2022 10:45:06 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1459284

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
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	Coal Authority: Climate Change
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 6 April 2022 to Question 149218, on Coal Authority: Climate Chang, whether it is his policy that the climate emergency is an exceptional circumstance when considering the powers of the direction.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	157336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the Hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/04/2022 12:08:45 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1459358

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what advice has his Department given to National Highways on delivering on the Transport Decarbonisation Plan's strategic priority that people should use their cars less often.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	157337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>National Highways’ Net Zero plan, published in July 2021, sets out how it will make the operation, maintenance and enhancement of our strategic roads net zero. This aligns with the Department’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan, also published in July 2021, which sets out ambitious and accelerating plans to decarbonise all road traffic and will transform roads’ impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Alongside this, one of the strategic priorities in the Transport Decarbonisation Plan is “Accelerating modal shift to public and active transport&quot; and the document sets out how this this will be achieved.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 26/04/2022 14:20:40 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1459363

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
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	Convention on Biological Diversity
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 steps the Government is taking in its COP26 presidency to encourage (a) wealthier nations and (b) other stakeholders to increase their finance contributions for the delivery of the Convention on Biological Diversity Global Biodiversity Framework.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	157338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Biodiversity loss is a global problem that needs a global solution. That is why the UK is committed to playing a leading role in developing an ambitious post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) of finance and targets to be adopted at COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).</p><p>This is a crucial moment for donors and other public and private stakeholders to set out how they plan to contribute to an emerging finance target under the GBF. The UK Government is leading the way with our commitment to spend at least £3 billion of our £11.6 billion International Climate Finance pledge on protecting and restoring nature, alongside our commitment that all Overseas Development Assistance will do no harm to nature.</p><p>We are working closely with other donor Governments in advance of CBD COP15 to encourage others to make similarly ambitious commitments and to work towards aligning all international public finance with the GBF, once it has been agreed.</p><p>While necessary, international public finance will not be sufficient to finance the transition to a nature positive future. We are also working with private finance institutions to drive up investment in nature.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/04/2022 08:48:51 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas