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1451794

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date	16/03/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	South Korea: Animal Welfare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she had with her counterpart in South Korea on improving animal protections in the UK and South Korea.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	141123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>The UK is proud to have some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world. This puts the UK in a strong position to share information, research and collaborate with other countries, including South Korea, on animal welfare. We do so via a range of mechanisms including at the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), of which South Korea is also a member.</p> answering member constituency Cannock Chase answering member printed Amanda Milling question first answered 21/03/2022 16:54:48 answering member 4454 label Biography information for Dame Amanda Milling
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1451795

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
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	Food: Children
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 help ensure that every child has access to healthy food.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	141124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2022 answer text <p>The Healthy Start scheme helps to encourage a healthy diet for pregnant women, babies and young children under four from very low-income households. It provides a payment card which may be used to purchase fruit, vegetables, pulses, milk and infant formula. Beneficiaries also receive free vitamins.</p><p>The Nursery Milk Scheme provides reimbursement to childcare providers for a daily one-third pint portion of milk for children under the age of five years old who attend a childcare setting for more than two hours a day. The School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme provides approximately 2.2 million children in Key Stage 1 with a portion of fresh fruit or vegetables each day at school. Schools are encouraged to use the Scheme as an opportunity to educate children about fruit and vegetables and to encourage the consumption of a healthy, balanced diet.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 23/03/2022 09:51:29 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1451798

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
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	Foie Gras and Furs: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Government's timetable is for making a decision on banning the import of fur and foie gras products.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	141126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>Now we have left the EU, the Government is able to explore potential action in relation to animal fur, in line with the Government’s commitment to improving animal welfare standards as set out in the Action Plan for Animal Welfare. We are reviewing the evidence gathered both from our Call for Evidence and wider engagement with the fur trade and stakeholders, and a summary of responses will be published soon.</p><p> </p><p>Regarding foie gras, the Government has made clear that the production of force-fed foie gras raises serious welfare concerns. We are now able to consider any further steps that could be taken in relation to foie gras that is produced overseas using force feeding practices, such as restrictions on import and sale. We continue to gather information and speak to a range of interested parties about the issues involved.</p><p> </p><p>We will update members accordingly when this evidence gathering process is concluded for both fur and foie gras.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 24/03/2022 15:02:16 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1451799

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
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	Food Supply
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to provide for the supply of (a) healthy and (b) British-produced food to public sector organisations.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	141127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government is adopting an ambitious and transformational approach to public sector food and catering. We want the public sector to lead by example, championing local food and farmers, and healthy, sustainable produce.</p><p> </p><p>We have a manifesto commitment to encourage the public sector to buy British, to support our farmers and reduce environmental costs. To help meet this commitment, we will soon be consulting on proposed changes to the Government Buying Standards for Food and Catering Services (GBSF). The consultation will seek views on ways to promote local, sustainable, healthier food in the public sector, open public sector procurement to a wider range of businesses and increase the transparency of food supply chains.</p><p> </p><p>Organisations in scope are required to apply the GBSF as per the Procurement Policy Note published in November 2014. The GBSF also includes best practice standards which are recommended but not required. We will consider whether future reforms to regulation are needed to unlock the full potential of public sector food and catering.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 24/03/2022 16:14:42 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1451800

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childminding: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason guidance states that childminders cannot operate if they have a positive or suspected covid-19 case in their household, despite the removal of legal self-isolation requirements on 24 February 2022.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	141128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>Since 17 March 2022, if someone in a childminder’s household has tested positive or has COVID-19 symptoms, childminders can continue to operate at home.</p><p>Childminders are advised to follow the steps below to reduce the risk of onward transmission:</p><ul><li>The person who has tested positive or has COVID-19 symptoms should avoid contact with the children being cared for in the home.</li><li>Where possible, use separate toilets and handwashing facilities. If this is not possible, maintain extra cleaning and hygiene routines, particularly after the person has used the facilities.</li><li>Notify parents, carers, and any assistants that someone has tested positive or has COVID-19 symptoms, as soon as reasonably possible and maintain open communication with them throughout.</li><li>Consider the need to reduce the spread of COVID-19 with mitigations, such as ventilation and extra cleaning and hygiene routines. They should be applied where practical and safe to do so. Additional information on how to stay safe and help prevent the spread of COVID-19 is available in the guidance published by the Cabinet Office, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-19-coronavirus-restrictions-what-you-can-and-cannot-do?priority-taxon=774cee22-d896-44c1-a611-e3109cce8eae?utm_source=17%20March%202022%20C19&amp;utm_medium=Daily%20Email%20C19&amp;utm_campaign=DfE%20C19" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-19-coronavirus-restrictions-what-you-can-and-cannot-do?priority-taxon=774cee22-d896-44c1-a611-e3109cce8eae?utm_source=17%20March%202022%20C19&amp;utm_medium=Daily%20Email%20C19&amp;utm_campaign=DfE%20C19</a>.</li><li>Comply with health and safety law by reviewing risk assessments in place. The risk assessment must demonstrate that the provision of childcare in the home is safe, and how any additional but proportionate measures will be put into place.</li></ul><p>Childminders can also consider using alternative places to operate, such as other childminders’ houses, where possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 24/03/2022 12:23:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1440921

registered interest
date	14/03/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department plans to publish a response to its consultation, Future of transport regulatory review: modernising vehicle standards.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	139278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2022 answer text <p>Thousands of responses were received to the public consultation entitled ‘Future of transport regulatory review: modernising vehicle standards’, which ran from 28 September 2021 to 22 November 2021. We are currently analysing those responses and intend to publish the government response later this year.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 22/03/2022 12:42:33 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1440922

registered interest
date	14/03/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans the Government has to update vehicle and pedestrian safety regulations.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	139279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2022 answer text <p>The forthcoming Road Safety Strategic Framework announced last year will draw on the safe system approach, including the safer vehicles pillar. The Government recognises the contribution that new vehicle technologies can make to this pillar, and is driving this forward through a range of domestic and international activities.</p><p>From 1 January 2021, the Government introduced a provisional GB Type Approval scheme for road vehicles to ensure there was no disruption to the market. The Department for Transport is now working to deliver a full scheme, which is expected to be implemented by the end of the year and will provide the regulatory framework needed to amend Type Approval requirements in Great Britain.</p><p>The EU General Safety Regulation (GSR) will set updated vehicle and pedestrian safety requirements across the EU and Northern Ireland from June 2022. The GSR includes a new frontal impact provision requiring the use of crash test dummies representative of a small female occupant as well as injury threshold values reflective of older occupants, reflecting a United Nations requirement that DfT officials helped to negotiate.</p><p>The Government is currently considering which technologies from the GSR might form part of our national approval requirements. The Department for Transport remains a member of the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) which already incentivises many of the technologies called up in the GSR, including the enhanced frontal impact requirements.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 139280 139281 question first answered 22/03/2022 12:46:53 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1440923

registered interest
date	14/03/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government plans to strengthen vehicle safety standards following the UK's departure from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	139280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2022 answer text <p>The forthcoming Road Safety Strategic Framework announced last year will draw on the safe system approach, including the safer vehicles pillar. The Government recognises the contribution that new vehicle technologies can make to this pillar, and is driving this forward through a range of domestic and international activities.</p><p>From 1 January 2021, the Government introduced a provisional GB Type Approval scheme for road vehicles to ensure there was no disruption to the market. The Department for Transport is now working to deliver a full scheme, which is expected to be implemented by the end of the year and will provide the regulatory framework needed to amend Type Approval requirements in Great Britain.</p><p>The EU General Safety Regulation (GSR) will set updated vehicle and pedestrian safety requirements across the EU and Northern Ireland from June 2022. The GSR includes a new frontal impact provision requiring the use of crash test dummies representative of a small female occupant as well as injury threshold values reflective of older occupants, reflecting a United Nations requirement that DfT officials helped to negotiate.</p><p>The Government is currently considering which technologies from the GSR might form part of our national approval requirements. The Department for Transport remains a member of the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) which already incentivises many of the technologies called up in the GSR, including the enhanced frontal impact requirements.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 139279 139281 question first answered 22/03/2022 12:46:53 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1440924

registered interest
date	14/03/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve vehicle safety for women involved in road traffic accidents.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	139281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2022 answer text <p>The forthcoming Road Safety Strategic Framework announced last year will draw on the safe system approach, including the safer vehicles pillar. The Government recognises the contribution that new vehicle technologies can make to this pillar, and is driving this forward through a range of domestic and international activities.</p><p>From 1 January 2021, the Government introduced a provisional GB Type Approval scheme for road vehicles to ensure there was no disruption to the market. The Department for Transport is now working to deliver a full scheme, which is expected to be implemented by the end of the year and will provide the regulatory framework needed to amend Type Approval requirements in Great Britain.</p><p>The EU General Safety Regulation (GSR) will set updated vehicle and pedestrian safety requirements across the EU and Northern Ireland from June 2022. The GSR includes a new frontal impact provision requiring the use of crash test dummies representative of a small female occupant as well as injury threshold values reflective of older occupants, reflecting a United Nations requirement that DfT officials helped to negotiate.</p><p>The Government is currently considering which technologies from the GSR might form part of our national approval requirements. The Department for Transport remains a member of the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) which already incentivises many of the technologies called up in the GSR, including the enhanced frontal impact requirements.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 139279 139280 question first answered 22/03/2022 12:46:53 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1440948

registered interest
date	14/03/2022
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	Vitamin D: Deficiency Diseases
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 support community organisations tackling vitamin D deficiencies.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	139282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>Advice on vitamin D is available at NHS.UK and the social marketing campaigns Start4Life, Better Health and Healthier Families. This includes messaging aimed at people from ethnic minority groups with dark skin and pregnant women.</p><p>In December 2020, a marketing campaign raised awareness of the importance of taking a vitamin D supplement over the winter months. The campaign was promoted using social media, email programmes and websites. This included paid advertising focused on black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Additionally, messages were delivered by black and Asian healthcare professionals on popular radio stations.</p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guideline focuses on how to increase supplement use to prevent vitamin D deficiency among specific population groups, including pregnant and breastfeeding women and people with dark skin. The guideline also includes recommendations for local authorities, National Health Service trusts, and voluntary and community organisations, as well as healthcare professionals such as general practitioners and midwives.</p><p>The Healthy Start scheme provides an opportunity for health professionals and others working with pregnant women and families to offer encouragement, information and advice on issues such as healthy eating, breastfeeding, and vitamins. As part of the scheme, pregnant women and new mothers can receive a supplement which contains folic acid, vitamin C and vitamin D.</p><p>To address maternal health disparities during the pandemic, the Chief Midwifery Officer also wrote to Local Maternity Systems to ensure that hospitals discuss vitamins, supplements, and nutrition in pregnancy with all women. While we have not taken specific steps to raise awareness of the impacts of vitamin D deficiency in educational facilities, nutrition and healthy eating is taught in schools as part of design and technology and Relationships, Sex Education and Health Education.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup grouped question UIN 139283 139285 139286 question first answered 21/03/2022 11:19:41 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman