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1197020

registered interest
date	19/05/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to promote the use of powered two wheelers as an alternative to public transport; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	48945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>As part of the recent update of the Department’s Road Safety Statement, published on 19 July 2019, we committed to ensuring motorcyclists have the necessary skills in order to stay safe on the road.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s guidance issued on 12 May refers to “Private cars and other vehicles” as an alternative to using public transport and encourages the public to “consider all other forms of transport before using public transport”. This would include private vehicles such as motorcycles and mopeds where the journey to be made is appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 02/06/2020 11:20:27 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1195738

registered interest
date	13/05/2020
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	Exercise Cygnus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May to Question 38420, what lessons resulted from Exercise Cygnus in relation to the importance of (a) personal protective equipment and (b) availability of intensive care beds in preparation for infectious disease outbreaks; whether those lessons were applied; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	46526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2020 answer text <p>The lessons identified from Exercise Cygnus continue to be considered by the Government and a range of stakeholders, including expert advisory groups and local emergency planners.</p><p>Working across Government and with stakeholders, the lessons from Exercise Cygnus and advice received since have informed our preparedness. Since Exercise Cygnus, health sector plans to surge and flex National Health Service systems and resources (including critical care) beyond normal operations have been strengthened and stockpiles of personal protective equipment specifically for an influenza pandemic have been kept under review.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/05/2020 18:55:22 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 22370 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1194625

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
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	Business Premises: Air Conditioning
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 he is taking to ensure that employers take into account the recommendations of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers on increasing the air supply rate of air conditioning systems to reduce the circulation of germs; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	44953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government has worked with a wide range of businesses, unions and representative organisations to produce guidance on safe return to work, as well as Public Health England (PHE) and the Health and Safety Executive. The guidance to help employers, employees and the self-employed understand how to work safely during the COVID-19 pandemic can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-coronavirus-covid-19" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-coronavirus-covid-19</a></p><p>Regarding ventilation and air conditioning, PHE supports guidance from The Federation of European Heating, Ventilation and Air conditioning Associations (REHVA) on changing ventilation practices to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.rehva.eu/activities/covid-19-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.rehva.eu/activities/covid-19-guidance</a></p><p>Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers is a United Kingdom member of REHVA and their advice is in line with REHVA guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 28/05/2020 15:37:49 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 22295 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1194626

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the evidential basis is for the Government's policy of requiring two metres minimum distance for social distancing during the covid-19 outbreak; on what grounds the Government has not set that minimum distance at one metre as practised in other countries; and for what reasons that policy does not set different social distancing requirements for indoor and outdoor environments.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	44954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2020 answer text <p>The main route for COVID-19 spread is via respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks. COVID-19 may spread directly person-to-person or indirectly via droplet contamination of surfaces.</p><p>At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, Public Health England (PHE) adopted a more precautionary approach than the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) recommendation of maintaining a one metre distance between individuals. This included PHE publishing guidance on social distancing stating that people should maintain a distance of at least two metres, which is also advised by several other countries such as Canada and South Korea.</p><p>These precautionary measures were informed by the available evidence from a study on respiratory droplet characteristics and dispersion. This study estimated that droplets exhaled by coughing could have a potential range exceeding one metre; greater than the WHO’s recommended social distancing. Additionally, the study concluded that there was no difference in the dispersal of respiratory droplets between indoor and outdoor environments, and so PHE’s recommendations on social distancing remains the same for these environments. Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128962/" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128962/</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/05/2020 12:18:47 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 22296 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1194629

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
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: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons the delivery of supplies of personal protective equipment to local authorities under the Clipper system has been delayed; and when those supplies will be available to all local authorities in England.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	44956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2020 answer text <p>The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Portal was rolled out nationally to general practitioners, small residential social care providers (24 beds or fewer) and small domiciliary care providers (99 clients or fewer). Over 21,000 providers throughout England have been invited to register and order through the PPE Portal, delivering more than 15 million items of PPE. The PPE Portal acts as an emergency top-up route for providers that cannot obtain sufficient PPE through their usual wholesaler routes.</p><p>In addition, we have authorised the release of over 143 million items of PPE to local resilience forums to help them respond to urgent local spikes in need across the adult social care system and other frontline services, where providers are unable to access PPE through their usual, or dedicated wholesaler routes.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 13/07/2020 13:25:33 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 22298 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1193685

registered interest
date	06/05/2020
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, how many covid-19 home testing kits were posted on (a) 29 April 2020, (b) 30 April 2020, (c) 1 May 2020 and (d) 4 May 2020; how many of those testing kits posted on each of those days has (i) been received back and (ii) successfully produced a test result; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	43829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/08/2020 answer text <p>We do not hold data in this format.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 19/08/2020 19:46:26 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 20801 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1191671

registered interest
date	29/04/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to extend the small business rates relief for covid-19 to (a) independent mortgage advisors (b) private dental practices and (c) small veterinary practices; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	41377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government is providing funding for Local Authorities to support small businesses that benefit from small business rates relief (SBRR), rural rate relief (RRR) and tapered relief. This will provide a one-off grant of £10,000 per property in receipt of these reliefs, to help meet their continuing business costs. There is no restriction on the type of small business which may be eligible.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to these grants, small businesses may also be able to benefit from the new Discretionary Grant Fund announced by the Government on 1 May. The Government has provided up to an additional £617m for Local Authorities in England to enable them to make grants payments to businesses which are facing high fixed property-related costs, but have been excluded from the existing grants schemes because of the way they are treated by the business rates system. Local Authorities are responsible for defining precise eligibility for these funds, and businesses will need to apply to their Local Authority in order to receive grants. Businesses which think they may be eligible for a discretionary grant should contact their Local Authority.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses not eligible for grant funding have access to other support measures which the Government has introduced, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS)</li><li>The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS)</li><li>The Bounce Back Loan Scheme for SMEs</li><li>VAT deferral for up to 12 months</li><li>The Time To Pay scheme, through which businesses and self-employed individuals in financial distress, and with outstanding tax liabilities, can receive support with their tax affairs</li><li>Protection for commercial leaseholders against automatic forfeiture for non-payment until 30 June 2020</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Business Support website provides further information about how businesses can access the support that has been made available, who is eligible, when the schemes open and how to apply: <a href="https://www.businesssupport.gov.uk/coronavirus-business-support" target="_blank">https://www.businesssupport.gov.uk/coronavirus-business-support</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 41602 question first answered 04/05/2020 15:55:02 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1191673

registered interest
date	29/04/2020
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	Police Patrolling: Recycling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether visits to a household recycling centre in England are categorised as necessary travel; and if he will take steps to prevent police intercepting vehicles travelling to such centres.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	41378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government is working with local authorities to explore ways in which household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) that have been closed might be re-opened and we expect to publish further guidance on this shortly. The guidance will clarify the circumstances under which a trip to the HWRC might be justified.</p><p> </p><p>Police enforcement does not apply in circumstances where travel is classified as reasonable or necessary. Therefore journeys to a HWRC, made in accordance with the forthcoming guidance, will be allowed. The police are aware of the proposed guidance.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 04/05/2020 15:47:53 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1191118

registered interest
date	28/04/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support the Government is providing to coach operators in the tourism industry to enable those drivers to continue to finance the capital cost of vehicles which are idle during the covid-19 outbreak; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	40961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>The Chancellor announced £330 billion of guarantees, which includes the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme so businesses, such as coach operators, have access to loans, overdrafts, invoice finance and asset finance to pay essential bills</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 04/05/2020 15:40:14 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1191156

registered interest
date	28/04/2020
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	Horticulture: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reasons garden centres that have taken steps to comply with social distancing measures are not allowed to re-open for business during the covid-19 lockdown; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	40962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>Garden centres are being asked to close along with many other retail premises to minimise the spread of the coronavirus. The Government has set up five tests that must be met before the lockdown measures can be lifted. These consider NHS capacity, death rates, transmission rates, availability of PPE, and avoidance of a second peak of the virus.</p><p>It is positive to see the emerging thoughts on how businesses such as garden centres can reopen safely – we will need to continue to work together on how easing measures could work when it is the right time to do so. Online retail is still open and encouraged, and postal and delivery services will continue to run.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 04/05/2020 14:49:55 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope