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1216818

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Bahrain: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the imprisonment and planned execution of people in Bahrain on that country's compliance with international human rights obligations.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	63453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>The Government of Bahrain is fully aware that the UK is firmly opposed to the death penalty, in all circumstances. The right to a fair trial is enshrined in the constitution of Bahrain; we continue to encourage the Government of Bahrain to follow due process in all cases and meet its international and domestic human rights commitments.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 01/07/2020 15:33:30 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1216819

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to improve road safety in (a) Herefordshire and (b) other rural areas.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	63236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>Whilst the Department has no current plan to improve road safety specifically in Herefordshire, the Department’s Safer Roads Fund will benefit the wider area. In 2017 £2.16 million was awarded to improve the A4173 in Gloucestershire and in 2018 £3.89 million was awarded to improve the A529 in Shropshire. These improvements will also benefit the constituents of Hereford as they travel further afield.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2019, the Government published the Road Safety Statement 2019: ‘A Lifetime of Road Safety. This includes a two-year action plan to address a range of road safety issues which will improve safety for all road users, including establishing a working group to address rural road safety issues.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 01/07/2020 14:43:53 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1216820

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road accidents involving tractors there were in Herefordshire in 2019.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	63237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>Detailed final statistics on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2019 will be published in September 2020. The latest annual published statistics are for 2018.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The number of reported personal injury road accidents involving scooters and tractors in Herefordshire, in 2018 can be found in the below table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Reported personal injury road accidents, by road user type involved, Herefordshire, 2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Road user type involved</p></td><td><p>Number of accidents</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scooter<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tractor<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: DfT, STATS19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p>1. Scooters are not one of the designated vehicle types collected in a STATS19 reportable accidents. As such they can only be identified by using a free text field or where the vehicle type includes the word scooter. The only scooter type recorded in Herefordshire in 2018 is mobility scooter.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p>2. Tractors are not one of the designated vehicle types collected in a STATS19 reportable accidents. As such they can only be identified by linking to other data sources. Vehicles that have a valid registration mark are matched to the DVLA database, which allows additional information to be linked to the records kept by DfT. For this analysis DVLA body types included are agricultural tractor, station tractor and tractor excavator, and the only type excluded was tractor units used for articulated lorries. The only results in body type analysis recorded in Herefordshire in 2018 was for agricultural tractors.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean grouped question UIN 63238 question first answered 01/07/2020 14:48:35 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1216821

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road accidents involving scooters there were in Herefordshire in 2019.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	63238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>Detailed final statistics on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2019 will be published in September 2020. The latest annual published statistics are for 2018.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The number of reported personal injury road accidents involving scooters and tractors in Herefordshire, in 2018 can be found in the below table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Reported personal injury road accidents, by road user type involved, Herefordshire, 2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Road user type involved</p></td><td><p>Number of accidents</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scooter<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tractor<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: DfT, STATS19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p>1. Scooters are not one of the designated vehicle types collected in a STATS19 reportable accidents. As such they can only be identified by using a free text field or where the vehicle type includes the word scooter. The only scooter type recorded in Herefordshire in 2018 is mobility scooter.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p>2. Tractors are not one of the designated vehicle types collected in a STATS19 reportable accidents. As such they can only be identified by linking to other data sources. Vehicles that have a valid registration mark are matched to the DVLA database, which allows additional information to be linked to the records kept by DfT. For this analysis DVLA body types included are agricultural tractor, station tractor and tractor excavator, and the only type excluded was tractor units used for articulated lorries. The only results in body type analysis recorded in Herefordshire in 2018 was for agricultural tractors.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean grouped question UIN 63237 question first answered 01/07/2020 14:48:35 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1216822

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road accidents involving electric vehicles there were in Herefordshire in 2019.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	63239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>Electric vehicles are not one of the designated vehicle types collected in a STATS19 reportable accidents. The only vehicle type that could be used in its entirety from STATS19 was ‘electric motorcycles’. Vehicles that had a valid registration mark were matched to the DVLA database, which allowed vehicles with ‘electric’ propulsion to be identified. All ‘mobility scooters’ were included in the analysis, as they are predominantly electric powered when they are without a registration marks. The remaining records were searched in a free text field for the word ‘electric’.</p><p> </p><p>Detailed final statistics on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2019 will be published in September 2020. The latest annual published statistics are for 2018.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>There were 3 reported personal injury road accidents involving electric vehicles, in Herefordshire, in 2018 (of these one included a mobility scooter, one included an electric motorcycle and one included an electric car).</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 01/07/2020 14:57:30 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1216823

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Travel: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the criteria used to assess the suitability of countries with which the UK plans to establish international travel corridors.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	63327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced that it has assessed the health measures at the UK border and as a result passengers will be exempted from self-isolation requirements in certain circumstances on arrival in the UK. This will apply to international rail, maritime, and aviation.</p><p> </p><p>The Joint Biosecurity Centre, in close consultation with Public Health England and the Chief Medical Officer, has developed a categorisation of countries and territories from which it is considered to present a lower risk from a public health perspective for passengers to enter the UK, without a requirement for 14 days isolation. This has been informed by factors including the prevalence of coronavirus within the country and, crucially, the numbers of new cases and the potential trajectory in the coming weeks of the disease in the country. This categorisation will inform Ministerial decisions about the easing of the current border measures.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will announce further details including a full list of the countries and territories from which arriving passengers will be exempted from self-isolation requirements later this week.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 29/06/2020 16:48:30 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

1216824

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: NHS
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will grant indefinite leave to remain to NHS staff who have worked during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	63347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>NHS workers from overseas have made a huge contribution in tackling the current pandemic. We are extending the leave of key NHS frontline health workers and their dependants by one year, free of immigration fees and health surcharge, if it was due to expire before October 2020. This offer has also been extended to cover those working in key healthcare roles in the independent health and care sector. However, indefinite leave to remain is based on a number of requirements, including a period of lawful residence in the UK without excess absences, sufficient knowledge of the English language and life in the UK, and any specific requirements of the visa route they are in.</p><p> </p><p>Families and dependants of all health workers who sadly pass away due to contracting the COVID-19 virus will be offered immediate indefinite leave to remain, without a requirement to pay a fee. We hope the number of people who find themselves in this position is very small. Our thoughts go out to the families and friends of all medical professionals who have passed away while fighting to keep us safe.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 29/06/2020 16:09:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1216825

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the termination of the Immigration Health Surcharge to the families of NHS staff.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	63348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>On 21 May, it was announced that the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care were to work together to exempt NHS and health and care staff from the Immigration Health Surcharge. Officials in the Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care are working through how to implement this change. Arrangements are being worked out and more details will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 29/06/2020 16:10:29 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1216826

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
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: Ethnic Groups
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 his Department has made of the potential merits of conducting the NHS Health Check on Black, Asian and minority ethnic NHS staff at age 25.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	63349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) has not made a specific assessment of the benefit of conducting NHS Health Checks amongst National Health Service staff.</p><p>PHE has published and advocates the use of a health equity audit tool and local data to inform local commissioning decisions in support of prioritising groups most likely to benefit from a check.</p><p>PHE guidance advocates that checks are delivered in a way that prioritises resources and effort to inviting and engaging those who are most likely to be at higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). National research shows greater take up of NHS Health Checks among deprived and minority ethnic groups at high risk of CVD. It can be accessed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/1/e008840" target="_blank">https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/1/e008840</a></p><p>Local authorities are legally required to make NHS Health Check provision for all eligible people aged 40 -74 but can also choose to extend the programme to a younger population.</p><p>PHE has been commissioned by the Department to deliver an evidence-based review of the NHS Health Check programme to inform action which will ensure it remains fit for purpose for the next 10 years and beyond.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 09/07/2020 10:21:40 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 33012 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1216827

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Travel: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, the Governments of which countries have been contacted by the Government to discuss the establishment of international travel corridors with the UK.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	63328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced that it has assessed the health measures at the UK border and as a result passengers will be exempted from self-isolation requirements in certain circumstances on arrival in the UK. This will apply to international rail, maritime, and aviation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will announce further details including a full list of the countries and territories from which arriving passengers will be exempted from self-isolation requirements later this week.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 29/06/2020 16:42:07 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy