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1551787

registered interest
date	14/12/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Cold Weather Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the locations of the Met Office Weather Stations used to determine eligibility for the cold weather payment to ensure that the measurements taken to activate those payments accurately reflect the temperatures where people live.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	110791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The Met Office review the Cold Weather Payment scheme each year to assess whether the linkages between postcode areas and weather stations remain the best available. The Met Office concluded this year’s review on 18 July 2022, and the next review will take place in summer 2023.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 19/12/2022 14:32:39 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1248497

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
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: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criminal background checks are undertaken against (a) covid-19 testing site workers who interact with children under 12 years old and (b) other testing site workers.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	110791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2021 answer text <p>We expect our providers to have rigorous recruitment practices to ensure that the staff they recruit to work on test sites are appropriate for the role. Children must be accompanied by their parent or guardian at a test site. Test site staff are not permitted to test children aged under 12 years old. In all test settings other than a National Health Service setting such as in hospital or a general practitioner surgery, children aged under 12 years old must only be tested by their parent or guardian.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 08/01/2021 17:09:17 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 59964 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

782120

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
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	Animal Welfare: Sentencing
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 introduce legislation to increase the maximum sentence for animal cruelty offences to five years' imprisonment.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Kevin Foster
uin	110791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2017 answer text <p>We hope to publish draft legislation for consultation around the turn of the year, as announced on 30 September.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/11/2017 17:03:34 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster