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1271150

registered interest
date	15/12/2020
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	Regional Planning and Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent progress his Department has made on the Government's levelling-up agenda.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	910327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2020 answer text <p>We have a clear commitment to level up all areas of the country. The recent announcement of our 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution to support green jobs, and a forthcoming Industrial Strategy refresh, are a critical part of this.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 15/12/2020 13:25:37 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1258108

registered interest
date	03/12/2020
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband: Hemsworth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the average broadband speed is in the Hemsworth constituency.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	124671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2020 answer text <p>Officials have checked the Ofcom Connected Nations performance data at constituency level, and it reports that as at May 2019, the average download speed in Hemsworth is 37.7 Mbit/s. This is the most recent performance data available - unlike coverage data it's only published once a year.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 15/12/2020 17:21:54 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1257614

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
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: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether outsourced hospital workers will receive the same level of priority for covid-19 vaccinations as NHS workers.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	124115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) consists of independent experts who advise the Government on which vaccine/s the United Kingdom should use and provide advice on prioritisation at a population level. The JCVI has advised that the first priorities for any COVID-19 vaccination programme should be the prevention of COVID-19 mortality and the protection of health and social care staff and systems.</p><p> </p><p>The JCVI considers frontline health and social care workers who provide care to vulnerable people a high priority for vaccination. The definition of frontline healthcare staff includes those involved in direct patient care. This includes staff who have frequent face-to-face clinical contact with patients and who are directly involved in patient care in either secondary or primary care/community settings.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2021 11:44:35 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1257616

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
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 recent discussions he has had with local authorities to help ensure a take-up of mass covid-19 testing in low income Tier 3 areas throughout England.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	124116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>We are working intensively with local authorities to ensure their community testing programmes are appropriately targeted during lockdown to continue to identify more positive cases and break chains of transmission.</p><p>The community testing offer is being expanded across all 317 local authorities in England to test people without symptoms. Local authorities are encouraged to target testing at people who are unable to work from home during the national lockdown. We are providing an additional £7 billion for NHS Test and Trace to support increased testing, including community testing and ongoing improvements to contact tracing.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 03/02/2021 13:01:21 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1257617

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
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, if he will publish the Government's operational plans for the roll-out of mass testing throughout areas that are placed into Tier 3 covid-19 restrictions.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	124117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2021 answer text <p>Our community testing programme will empower local authorities to offer a six week testing surge to drive down prevalence with the aim of moving to a lower tier. This will enable local authorities to offer tests to the general population as well as targeting high-risk workplaces and industries, hard-to-reach communities and schools in a coordinated effort to drive prevalence down. It will be delivered in partnership with local authorities to ensure it is tailored to local circumstances and need. The Government is also working with the devolved administrations to coordinate on testing plans and deliver additional testing capability in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 05/02/2021 10:41:12 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1257618

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
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 additional support the Government will provide to local authorities in Tier 3 to allow for the (a) establishment and (b) staffing of extra covid-19 testing sites.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	124118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>We are supporting local authorities in England to deliver a six-week community testing programme, to help reduce the spread of the virus and to ease the toughest restrictions more quickly.</p><p>We published ‘Community Testing: a guide for local delivery’, which sets out the extensive package of support available, including details of £14-per-test funding for those taking part. This funding per test has been calculated to cover all reasonable costs associated with implementing and operating a testing programme. The community testing guidance is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-testing-explainer/community-testing-a-guide-for-local-delivery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-testing-explainer/community-testing-a-guide-for-local-delivery</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/01/2021 18:07:47 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1257619

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
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	Care Homes: Visits
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 publish (a) advice and (b) guidance provided by the (i) Chief Medical Officer and (ii) Public Health England on the introduction of lateral flow testing as a precautionary measure to enable family members to hug relatives in care homes.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	124119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2021 answer text <p>The Department has published ‘Coronavirus (COVID-19) lateral flow testing of visitors in care homes’. This guidance has been informed by clinical and public health advice provided by Public Health England (PHE) and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer. PHE has provided specific advice on the use of lateral flow devices to enable safer visiting by loved ones to residents in care homes recognising a negative test result is not proof against incursion of infection and that all other appropriate infection prevention and control measures, including use of personal protective equipment, social distancing and use of space are considered by care home managers as part of their risk assessment.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 13/01/2021 11:39:21 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1257620

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
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: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on and (b) assessment he has made of the potential merits of a more localised approach to tiered restrictions within specific regions within England.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	124120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues relating to all aspects of the COVID-19 response.</p><p>In December 2020, restrictions were applied to broad geographical areas where there are significant interconnected economic and social networks. This approach enabled the same restrictions to apply where people are likely to work and socialise. <br> <br> The Government reviewed restrictions every two weeks against a range of indicators and every local authority was reviewed individually.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 09/03/2021 14:10:43 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1257621

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
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	Fuel Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will bring forward proposals to tackle fuel poverty.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	124121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2020 answer text <p>Improving energy efficiency is the best long-term solution to tackle fuel poverty and at the Summer Economic Update we announced more than £2 billion of funding for upgrading the energy efficiency of homes. The Green Homes Grant is a £2 billion programme which will help improve the energy efficiency of homes in England. Low-income homeowners in receipt of certain benefits may be eligible for a grant covering up to 100% of the cost of installation. The 2020 Spending Review committed a further £320 million in funding for the Green Homes Grant for 2021-22 and £150 million to help some of the poorest homes become more energy efficient and cheaper to heat with low-carbon energy.</p><p> </p><p>The Energy Company Obligation scheme requires energy companies to deliver energy efficiency and heating measures to low income, vulnerable and fuel poor households. The current scheme is worth £640m per year and ends in March 2022. The Prime Minister announced an extension to this scheme until 2026 in his Ten Point Plan. We also recently closed our consultation on the extension of the Warm Home Discount until March 2022. This will continue to provide a £140 energy bill rebate to over 2 million low income and vulnerable households, and vital projects helping fuel poor households throughout the country through Industry Initiatives.</p><p>We are currently consulting on improving the standard of privately rented homes in England and Wales through a minimum energy efficiency performance standard of Band C, helping to tackle fuel poverty in that tenure.</p><p> </p><p>An updated fuel poverty strategy for England will also be released in the coming months, outlining our commitments to delivering against our statutory target to ensure that as many fuel poor homes as is reasonably practicable achieve a minimum energy efficiency rating of Band C, by 2030.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 11/12/2020 11:40:43 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1257622

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
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	Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will bring forward an anti-poverty strategy.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	124122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2020 answer text <p>Tackling child poverty is a key priority for this Government. We have provided an unprecedented package of support throughout the pandemic, injecting billions into the welfare system for those most in need, including increases to the Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit standard allowances of up to £1040 this financial year, and uplifts to the Local Housing Allowance rates to cover the lowest 30% of market rents. The Covid Winter Grant Scheme builds on that support with an additional £170m for local authorities in England, to support families with children and other vulnerable people, with the cost of food and essential utilities this winter.</p><p> </p><p>Our long-term ambition is to level up across the country and to continue to tackle child poverty, through our reformed welfare system that works with the labour market to encourage parents to move into, and progress in work, wherever possible. This approach is based on clear evidence about the importance of parental employment, particularly where it is full-time, in substantially reducing the risks of poverty and in improving long-term outcomes for children.</p><p> </p><p>Our £30bn Plan for Jobs is another step on the ladder to achieving this and will support economic recovery through new schemes including Kickstart and Job Entry Targeted Support. We are also doubling the number of work coaches who, through our Jobcentre network, will provide more people with the tailored support they need to move back into work and towards financial independence.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 124123 question first answered 11/12/2020 15:20:57 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett