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1460322

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the causes for the reported backlogs at the DVLA; and what steps he is taking to resolve these issues.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	160437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The quickest and easiest way to make an application to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is by using its extensive suite of online services. There are no delays in successful online applications and customers should receive their documents within a few days.</p><p>The delays in processing paper applications were significantly exacerbated by six months of industrial action by the Public and Commercial Services union, which was targeted at the areas that would have the most impact on the motoring public. Without this industrial action, the backlog at the DVLA would by now have been cleared.</p><p>To reduce waiting times for customers, the DVLA has introduced additional online services, recruited more staff, increased overtime working and has opened new customer service centres in Swansea and Birmingham.</p><p>These measures are having a positive impact and vehicle paper applications are now being processed within normal timescales as are straightforward vocational driving licence applications and renewals. The DVLA is on track to return to normal turnaround times on all non-medical paper driving licence applications by the end of May.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 160438 question first answered 28/04/2022 08:59:57 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1460327

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the DVLA on reports that staff have been off work on full pay in the context of an application backlog.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	160438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The quickest and easiest way to make an application to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is by using its extensive suite of online services. There are no delays in successful online applications and customers should receive their documents within a few days.</p><p>The delays in processing paper applications were significantly exacerbated by six months of industrial action by the Public and Commercial Services union, which was targeted at the areas that would have the most impact on the motoring public. Without this industrial action, the backlog at the DVLA would by now have been cleared.</p><p>To reduce waiting times for customers, the DVLA has introduced additional online services, recruited more staff, increased overtime working and has opened new customer service centres in Swansea and Birmingham.</p><p>These measures are having a positive impact and vehicle paper applications are now being processed within normal timescales as are straightforward vocational driving licence applications and renewals. The DVLA is on track to return to normal turnaround times on all non-medical paper driving licence applications by the end of May.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 160437 question first answered 28/04/2022 08:59:57 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1460413

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	Care Homes: Labour Turnover
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve staff retention in the care home sector.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	160439
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 09:10:50 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1460414

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	Care Homes: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle the high number of staff vacancies in the care home sector.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	160440
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 09:11:11 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1460418

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	Care Homes: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support care homes in the context of the rising cost of energy.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	160441
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 10:38:14 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1460421

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	Care Homes: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support care homes in the context of the rising cost of insurance.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	160442
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 11:18:34 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1460424

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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
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 he has made of the adequacy of support provided to care homes following the publication of the Government's guidance entitled Living with Covid-19 on 21 February 2022.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	160443
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 09:12:00 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1460425

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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure adequate supplies of covid-19 (a) PCR and (b) lateral flow tests for care homes.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	160444
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 09:28:52 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1460426

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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
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 he has made of the adequacy of the sick pay policy for care home staff who are off sick with covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	160445
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 09:09:52 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1460427

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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
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 he has made of the affordability of covid-19 testing for people who are visiting relatives in care homes.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	160446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Visitors are no longer asked to test before entering a care home although they are encouraged to take necessary precautions to keep themselves and their loved ones safe, including staying away from the care home if they are symptomatic or test positive for COVID-19. However, free asymptomatic testing is available for visitors providing personal care before entering the care home, up to twice weekly if visiting more than twice. While visitor testing is no longer required, we will continue to ensure that COVID-19 tests are available through the private market for those who wish to purchase them.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 28/04/2022 09:29:44 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe