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1399404

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date	04/01/2022
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	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 lateral flow tests were held in stock by the UKHSA on (a) 1 October, (b) 1 November, (c) 1 December and (d) 13 December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	96927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of lateral flow tests device tests of all types held in stock by the UK Health Security Agency on the dates requested.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>1 October 2021</p></td><td><p>1 November 2021</p></td><td><p>1 December 2021</p></td><td><p>13 December 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>119 million</p></td><td><p>161 million</p></td><td><p>155 million</p></td><td><p>147 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 10/01/2022 16:58:02 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1399464

registered interest
date	04/01/2022
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	Flexible Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish a response to his Department's consultation entitled Making flexible working the default.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	96928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government’s consultation on making flexible working the default was published on 23 September 2021 and ran for 10 weeks until 1 December 2021, receiving over 1,600 responses. The Government is now analysing these responses and will issue its response to the consultation in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 12/01/2022 16:47:20 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1399465

registered interest
date	04/01/2022
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	Minimum Wage: Government Departments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to his Department's press notice of 9 December 2021 entitled National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme, how many of the employers named have a contract with a Government Department.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	96929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2022 answer text <p>All employers need to pay their staff correctly. Paying the minimum wage is not optional, it’s the law. Under the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme, employers who have previously broken minimum wage law can be publicly named. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy follows a clear and thorough process allowing firms to make representations against being named if they meet our published criteria.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 12/01/2022 16:46:33 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1388188

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average response time is for her Department to respond to correspondence from hon. Members in the latest period for which that data is available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	93773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2022 answer text <p>Data about intake and performance in answering Hon. Members Correspondence are published quarterly with the latest Quarter available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q2-2021" target="_blank">Customer service operations data: Q2 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> and this includes data up to and including the end of quarter 2 - 2021. We are proposing the release of data for quarter 3 in due course.</p><p> </p><p>We do not publish average waiting times for substantive responses to correspondence.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/01/2022 10:48:40 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1388189

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
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	Personal Independence Payment: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average response time for answering personal independence payment new claims calls was in each month from December 2020 to November 2021.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	93774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2022 answer text <p>Thank you for your question the following table presents Personal Independent Payment (PIP) New Claims (NC) Monthly Management Information for period December 2020 to November 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The table details on a month by month basis for the above noted period the total number of calls answered for the service and the average speed to answer (ASA) for those calls, the ASA data is presented in minutes and seconds.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average speed of answer (min:sec)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Calls Answered</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dec-20</strong></p></td><td><p>00:36</p></td><td><p>45,298</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jan-21</strong></p></td><td><p>02:50</p></td><td><p>64,403</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Feb-21</strong></p></td><td><p>03:41</p></td><td><p>62,357</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Mar-21</strong></p></td><td><p>02:16</p></td><td><p>96,578</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Apr-21</strong></p></td><td><p>02:59</p></td><td><p>78,690</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>May-21</strong></p></td><td><p>05:06</p></td><td><p>78,075</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jun-21</strong></p></td><td><p>06:52</p></td><td><p>89,427</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jul-21</strong></p></td><td><p>03:28</p></td><td><p>87,532</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug-21</strong></p></td><td><p>02:56</p></td><td><p>86,099</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sep-21</strong></p></td><td><p>07:48</p></td><td><p>93,654</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Oct-21</strong></p></td><td><p>12:38</p></td><td><p>91,025</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nov-21</strong></p></td><td><p>08:06</p></td><td><p>101,186</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 12/01/2022 17:52:19 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1388191

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
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: Software
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to update the NHS Covid App to allow differentiation between positive cases from the delta and omicron covid-19 variants.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	93775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>The National Health Service (NHS) COVID-19 app cannot currently provide differentiated advice between positive cases of the Delta and the Omicron variants. Where the app notifies an individual that they have had close contact with someone with COVID-19, it provides advice based on the information the user provides about their age and vaccination status. We are currently exploring whether the underlying technology the NHS COVID-19 app uses for contact tracing could enable the app to provide differentiated messages to users based on the probable COVID-19 variant of the person they were recently in close contact with.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 10/01/2022 17:54:36 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1388192

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
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: Software
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of active users of the Test and Trace App as of 15 December 2021; and how that number compares with that for (a) October and (b) November 2021.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	93776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>The data is not held in the format requested as there is no single definition or measure for active users.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 11/01/2022 17:31:01 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1388193

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many consolatory payments were made by her Department for poor service in each month from March 2020; and what the value of those payments was.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	93777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>DWP makes consolatory payments to acknowledge the non-financial impact of DWP maladministration. The information is recorded quarterly. The number of authorised payments and the total amount paid per quarter in 2020/21 is provided in the table. Equivalent data for 2021/22 will be finalised at the end of the financial year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>DWP Consolatory Payments 2020-21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>No. of authorised payments</p></td><td><p>Amount paid £</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Quarter 1</p></td><td><p>598</p></td><td><p>67,615</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Quarter 2</p></td><td><p>778</p></td><td><p>81,306</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Quarter 3</p></td><td><p>1,216</p></td><td><p>107,050</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Quarter 4</p></td><td><p>1,244</p></td><td><p>110,069</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,836</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>366,040</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>The number and value of special payments authorised in quarter 1 and 2 are significantly lower than quarter 3 and 4. This is because, as part of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department redeployed colleagues normally tasked with special payments to support processing regular claims and payments. As staff moved back into their normal duties, and changes were made to our DWP complaints model to prioritise vulnerable claimants who may be at risk, we saw a temporary increase in special payment referrals from mid Q2, while claims in the system were processed. </em></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/01/2022 18:00:21 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1388194

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Travel: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of omicron covid-19 variant on the travel sector; and whether he has had discussions with (a) officials in his Department and (b) Cabinet colleagues on sector specific economic support measures.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	93778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises the challenging times facing the international travel sectors due to COVID-19. Additional temporary testing measures introduced in response to the Omicron variant have helped prevent additional cases of Omicron from entering the UK. Government recognises the impact these temporary health measures have had on the travel and aviation industry, and they were updated on 5 January.</p><p> </p><p>Since the start of the pandemic, we estimate that the air transport sector (airlines, airport and related services) will have benefitted from around £8bn of government support.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 07/01/2022 12:37:26 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1388195

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
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	Travel: 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 his Department has made of the potential merits of taking steps to (a) reduce and (b) waive the costs of covid-19 tests for UK citizens returning to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	93779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>We have no plans to provide free tests for international travel. Free National Health Service tests cannot be used for travel in order to preserve domestic testing capacity.</p><p>We are committed to working with private testing providers to reduce the cost of testing. Since international travel testing requirements were introduced, the average cost of a day two polymerase chain reaction test has decreased to £45 and tests are regularly available from approximately £20. For United Kingdom residents or individuals with residency rights who would suffer severe financial hardship by paying the full cost of their testing fees before they travel, hardship arrangements may be available.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 11/01/2022 09:11:04 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders