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1187879

registered interest
date	25/03/2020
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	Voluntary Work: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how (a) Community Response Volunteers will work with existing community groups, (b) information on that scheme will be shared locally and (c) volunteers will be matched up with people in need; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	34961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2020 answer text <p>We have launched the National Health Service Volunteer Responders programme to support the health and social care sectors to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p>The programme was developed to compliment local level volunteering activity and we have worked with local authorities and the voluntary and charity sector, as well as those shielding, to make them aware of the programme and how people can be referred to it.</p><p>NHS Volunteer Responders are matched up with those who need their services through the GOODSAM app.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 08/06/2020 17:15:49 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1187407

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what plans she has for the allocation of the £80 million CPS budget increase announced in the Spending Round 2019.
tabling member constituency	Broadland
tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
uin	901773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government is investing across the justice system and has invested £85m in the CPS up to 2021. This will enable the CPS to respond effectively to the expected increase in caseload resulting from the recruitment of 20,000 new police officers; to better meet its disclosure obligations; to work with investigators to pursue all reasonable lines of inquiry; and to deliver much needed changes to external counsel fees. Investing in the CPS, to support it to respond to these pressures, demonstrates this Government’s commitment to ensuring that justice is served.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 21/04/2020 09:22:37 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew

1187480

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether currency exchange kiosks are eligible to apply for covid-19 small business support.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	34344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>All businesses in receipt of the Small Business Rate Relief on or before the 11<sup>th</sup> March 2020 are eligible for the Small Business Grants Fund. Where currency exchange kiosks have their own business rating and meet the eligibility criteria, they are eligible for the Small Business grant of £10,000.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 27/04/2020 10:41:58 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1187486

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Loans: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will introduce an immediate six-month moratorium on commercial lenders enforcing loan repayments during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	34352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced an unprecedented support package to help businesses through this challenging time.</p><p> </p><p>For larger businesses, this includes the new Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF), which will provide additional help for firms facing cash flow disruption, and the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme launched on Monday 20 April. For small and medium sized businesses (SMEs), the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) launched on 23 March which will help give lenders greater confidence to continue providing SMEs with finance through this uncertainty.</p><p> </p><p>The Government welcomes the commitments made by the banking industry to support their customers’ finance needs, and will continue to work with the regulators and the industry to ensure the steps we have taken are effective in helping businesses through this period of uncertainty.</p><p> </p><p>Any customer who is concerned about their current financial situation should get in touch with their lender at the earliest possible opportunity to discuss the best option for them.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 21/04/2020 11:35:54 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1187487

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Parliamentary Scrutiny: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what criteria the Government uses to determine what work is essential during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Morgan
uin	34402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>The position as outlined on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">gov.uk</a> is that everyone who can work from home should do so.</p><p>When that is not possible, people should go into work provided they are not symptomatic, isolating or shielding. Relevant guidance including from Public Health England should be followed.</p><p>The Government has placed restrictions on the operations of certain businesses as part of the strategy of enhanced social distancing. Separate guidance has been published on this and is also available on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 21/04/2020 08:35:23 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1187500

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
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 make an assessment of the implications for her policy on immigration detention of the 17 March 2020 report by Professor Richard Coker on the risk of infection from covid-19 to (a) vulnerable women asylum seekers and (b) other detainees.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	34361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>There are currently no cases of COVID-19 in immigration removal centres.</p><p> </p><p>The safety and health of people in the detention and asylum estates is of the utmost importance. The Home Office has robust contingency plans in place and continues to follow national guidance issued by Public Health England (PHE), Health Protection Scotland and the National Health Service, including the interim advice on preventing and controlling outbreaks of Covid-19 in prisons and other prescribed places of detention, which was first published on 16 March.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, all immigration removal centres have communicable disease contingency plans, based on PHE advice, and dedicated health facilities run by doctors and nurses which are managed by the NHS or appropriate providers. All receptions into detention receive an assessment within two hours by a nurse and can see a doctor within 24 hours.</p><p> </p><p>Anybody who is destitute and has an outstanding asylum claim or appeal against a refusal to grant asylum can apply for support and accommodation, including those who are being released from detention. The Home Office is working closely with colleagues in Public Health England as well as with accommodation providers to ensure we have appropriate arrangements in place for anybody leaving detention who is receiving asylum support and/or living in asylum accommodation and who is required to self-isolate and providing them with advice and guidance via our AIRE Provider, Migrant Help.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally the Secretary of State may provide accommodation and support for a foreign national offender who is subject to a residency condition and are either considered to pose a high risk or harm to the public or be suffering from a serious physical or mental health problem.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 34364 question first answered 21/04/2020 14:56:30 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1187502

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
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	Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that people who have recently been in contact with women at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre who have become infected with covid-19 will be tested for that disease.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	34362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised that COVID-19 testing is only routinely being carried out on symptomatic patients arriving at hospital.</p><p>This is in line with NHS England and NHS Improvement national policy to utilise tests and laboratory capacity for urgent hospitalised patients. The Government has confirmed a major national effort to boost testing capacity. With a focus on ensuring the highest priority cases are tested first, officials are working to rapidly increase the number of tests that can be conducted by Public Health England and the National Health Service in laboratories, with the expected surge in capacity ready within four weeks.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 21/04/2020 16:15:43 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1187503

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
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	Migrants: Detainees
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 has taken to identify individuals in detention with underlying health conditions; and if he will take steps to ensure that all people in detention are screened to determine whether they have a relevant condition that makes them vulnerable during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	34363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement have released patient data to the Heads of Healthcare across the secure and detained estate and to centre directors. This will mean that this patient cohort can be identified and protectively isolated and managed across establishments in the event of a confirmed positive case and any potential unconfirmed cases.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 21/04/2020 16:19:48 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1187513

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether builders' merchants are defined as essential businesses, for the purposes of his Department's 23 March 2020 guidance entitled Further businesses and premises to close.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	34396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>Construction plays a crucial role in supporting our public services, maintaining the nation’s infrastructure, and providing safe, decent homes for people to live in. Recently, the Government wrote to all those working in the construction sector to thank them for the critical contribution they are making to the resilience of this country.</p><p> </p><p>Builders’ merchants are an essential part of the construction supply chain and it is therefore important that they continue to operate. However, it is important that they do so in accordance with the guidance issued by Public Health England, which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/social-distancing-in-the-workplace-during-coronavirus-covid-19-sector-guidance#construction" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/social-distancing-in-the-workplace-during-coronavirus-covid-19-sector-guidance#construction</a></p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/04/2020 08:52:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1187541

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	National Income
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the amount of GDP that came from the sale of illegal drugs in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	34375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 21/04/2020 08:27:48 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ34375.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith