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1240510

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	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for urgent mental health service provision.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mike Hill
uin	907122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Clinical Review of Access Standards committed to testing new standards during 2020/21 for urgent mental health crisis care, including access to a liaison psychiatry team in accident and emergency departments within an hour of referral.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan set out measures to achieve 24 hours a day, seven days a week crisis care services, including a new national single point of access via NHS 111, and increased investment in alternative crisis services.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 06/10/2020 15:52:20 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4644 label Biography information for Mike Hill

1240511

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	Health Services: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of negotiations on the future relationship with the EU on the health and social care sector.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	907125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>The negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom are ongoing. The UK has been engaged continuously and constructively in those negotiations, and issues which affect the health and social care sector play an important part in them. We must not prejudge the outcome of those negotiations.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/10/2020 15:58:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1240512

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: Weather
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What additional support he is providing to the NHS ahead of winter 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Mr Simon Clarke
uin	907129
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 16:13:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke

1240513

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	Coronavirus: Social Distancing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the 10.00pm curfew on hospitality premises serving alcohol on limiting the second wave of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	907132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>We know social mixing is a major factor of transmission and compliance with social distancing and enforcement of regulations becomes more challenging later in the evening.</p><p>We have looked to other countries and taken an approach that balances reducing these contacts and suppressing the virus, with maintaining the livelihoods on those in the hospitality sector, by enabling businesses to remain open.</p><p>We want to see COVID-19-secure businesses remain open, and this is a balance, but contact tracing data has indicated patterns of contacts links to hospitality venues, restaurants, pubs and bar.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 06/10/2020 15:50:17 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1240514

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	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to increase the number of mental health hubs in the community.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Duncan Baker
uin	907133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan set out a vision for providing integrated mental health support across primary and community services to ensure people can access the care, treatment and support at the earliest point of need.</p><p>All local areas have received funding to develop and deliver these new models of integrated care by 2023-24. The Government has not prescribed the form these should take though they may take the form of community mental health hubs.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 06/10/2020 15:57:09 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4784 label Biography information for Duncan Baker

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

1240064

registered interest
date	05/10/2020
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	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to promote house building.
tabling member constituency	West Worcestershire
tabling member printed	Harriett Baldwin
uin	907026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2020 answer text <p>We have set out an ambitious package of measures to ensure we build the right homes in the right places; levelling up opportunities across the country. This includes, at £12 billion, the highest single funding commitment to affordable housing in a decade; and once in a generation reform to the planning system. This builds on the 240,000 new homes delivered last year; the highest in over 30 years.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 05/10/2020 16:54:46 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin

1240065

registered interest
date	05/10/2020
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	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	How the Government allocates resources between local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	907028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2020 answer text <p>In England, the Government generally allocates funding to local authorities in line with their relative need. For example, since the start of the pandemic, we have allocated an additional £3.7 billion un-ringfenced funding to local authorities in England, and have taken into account population, deprivation and how service delivery costs vary across the country in distributing this money.</p><p>Local authority allocations in Wales are a fully devolved matter.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 05/10/2020 16:56:25 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

1240066

registered interest
date	05/10/2020
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	Coronavirus: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment his Department has made of the financial effect on local authorities of additional local restrictions as a result of an increase in covid-19 infections.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Kate Osborne
uin	907030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2020 answer text <p>We have provided over £4.8 billion in additional funding to support councils throughout the pandemic, including £3.7 billion of un-ringfenced funding.</p><p>We are extremely grateful to councils for their continued collaboration through our COVID-19 data collection and monitoring exercises, and continue to have discussions with councils about the pressures they are facing.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 05/10/2020 16:56:45 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4783 label Biography information for Kate Osborne

1240067

registered interest
date	05/10/2020
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	Property Development: Floods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to discourage developers from building in areas at risk of flooding.
tabling member constituency	Arundel and South Downs
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffith
uin	907031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2020 answer text <p>There are already strong protections in the National Planning Policy Framework, and we are reviewing this to ensure that future development will be safe from floods. The review will assess whether current protections in national planning policy are enough and consider options for further reform.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 05/10/2020 16:57:09 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith