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1604857

registered interest
date	16/03/2023
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	Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department will publish the Major Conditions Strategy.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	167047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>An interim report of the Major Conditions Strategy will be published in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/03/2023 11:15:55 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1550089

registered interest
date	08/12/2022
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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
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 plans to remove the requirement for care homes to recommend residents undergo PCR testing where more than two covid-19 cases inside a care setting have been confirmed.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	106351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government’s guidance on outbreak testing, where more than two COVID-19 cases inside a care setting have been confirmed, is informed by public health advice. This aims to ensure that positive cases of COVID-19 can be identified and to prevent transmission. We continue to keep this guidance under review.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 16/12/2022 10:48:49 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1468433

registered interest
date	08/06/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Energy: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of establishing a windfall tax on energy companies.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	14440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government is introducing the Energy Profits Levy, a new 25% surcharge on the extraordinary profits the oil and gas sector is making.</p><p> </p><p>The new Energy Profits Levy will raise around £5 billion over the next year which will go towards supporting people with the new cost of living measures announced by the Chancellor.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the levy a new tax relief is being introduced to encourage firms to invest in the UK. The new 80% Investment Allowance will mean businesses will overall get a 91p tax saving for every £1 they invest.</p><p> </p><p>The levy does not apply to the electricity generation sector. However, certain parts of it have also seen extraordinary profits partly due to record gas prices. As set out in the Energy Security Strategy, the Government is consulting with the power generation sector and investors to drive forward energy market reforms and ensure that the price paid for electricity is more reflective of the costs of production. Those reforms will take time to implement. In the meantime, the Government is urgently evaluating the scale of these extraordinary profits and the appropriate steps to take.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 13/06/2022 12:53:21 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1315637

registered interest
date	18/05/2021
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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government's definition of a low risk visit in respect of taking care home residents out of the care home during the covid-19 outbreak includes visits to indoor hospitality settings.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	2900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2021 answer text <p>The guidance on visiting, which came into effect on 17 May 2021, says that care home residents should be able to leave their care home to spend time outdoors or to go to medical appointments excluding overnight stays, their workplace, educational settings or day centres, without having to self-isolate on their return.</p><p>In addition, the guidance says that residents can go on other visits out of the home where an individual risk assessment is in place and they are essential to maintaining the individual’s health and wellbeing.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 24/05/2021 08:52:38 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1313314

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to provide an update on allowing care home residents to make visits outside as covid-19 restrictions are eased.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	79
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>We have updated our guidance on care home visiting which came into effect on 17 May, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arrangements-for-visiting-out-of-the-care-home/visits-out-of-care-homes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arrangements-for-visiting-out-of-the-care-home/visits-out-of-care-homes</a></p><p>All care home residents should be supported to leave the home to spend time outdoors or to take part in other activity that is important to their health and wellbeing, subject to individual risk assessments. Our guidance advises care homes that visits out for medical appointments or to take part in other activities necessary to maintain an individual’s health and wellbeing do not need to be followed by a period of isolation.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 19/05/2021 10:39:10 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1312124

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
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	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, what steps he is taking to ensure that elderly parents and relatives of care home residents do not have to sit in the cold during visits during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	187165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>As of 12 April, every care home should ensure that each resident can nominate up to two named people who can have regular, indoor visits. Those residents with higher care needs can also nominate an ‘essential care giver’. These visitors will be able to visit more often in order to provide essential care. Visiting arrangements that have been available throughout the period of national lockdown should continue such as using substantial screens, visiting pods, behind windows or outdoors.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 29/04/2021 08:05:38 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1303288

registered interest
date	17/03/2021
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	Coronavirus: Databases
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 value for money of awarding contracts to both BAE Systems and Palantir Technology for the creation of covid-19 databases for the (a) Joint Biosecurity Centre and (b) the NHS; and whether his Department made an assessment of the potential merits of creating one such database for both the Joint Biosecurity Centre and the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	170554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2021 answer text <p>BAE Systems and Palantir Technology provided two pieces of software, Intelligence Reveal and Foundry. Management processes for each contract were defined at the outset in collaboration with the supplier. Overall performance, including value for money, is continually monitored through contract management meetings and performance reporting milestones aligned to the Government standards and best practice. Decisions on data assessment, storage and collection are yet to be confirmed. The contract with BAE Systems is to build the necessary data architecture, engineering and analytics capability to serve NHS Test and Trace, including the Joint Biosecurity Centre. Its scope is far wider in terms of National Health Service data and the analytics capability is more advanced than that provided by Foundry.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 31/03/2021 09:18:43 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 92416 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1303289

registered interest
date	17/03/2021
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	Coronavirus: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what are the proposed annual running costs for the contracts awarded to BAE Systems and Palantir Technology for the creation of covid-19 databases.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	170796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The Department will publish audited annual accounts later this year on Test and Trace programme costs. The BAE Systems contract award notices are now published on Contracts Finder and can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/34171774-d3db-42e8-ae21-f74294a38df5" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/34171774-d3db-42e8-ae21-f74294a38df5</a></p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9dc8a091-62f9-46ea-acdf-733c913583b8" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9dc8a091-62f9-46ea-acdf-733c913583b8</a></p><p>The value for each respective contract was £2.4 million and £4.3 million.</p><p>The Palantir Technology contract award notice is now published on Contracts Finder and can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6d586696-365e-43f0-af63-1e3c0af32e41" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6d586696-365e-43f0-af63-1e3c0af32e41</a></p><p>The contract value was £908,000.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/04/2021 10:43:03 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1302550

registered interest
date	15/03/2021
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	Joint Biosecurity Centre
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 reason the Joint Biosecurity Centre holds data on the (a) names, (b) contact details, (c) gender, (d) ethnicity, (e) occupation and employment and (f) NHS test and trace records of individual covid-19 patients.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	168845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>The Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) holds and processes personal data to provide evidence-based, objective analysis, assessment and advice to inform local and national decision-making in response to COVID-19 outbreaks. This includes helping to inform action on testing, contact tracing and local outbreak management. The insight and analysis supports decision-makers at a local and national level to take effective action to break the chains of transmission and to protect the public.</p><p>The JBC stores and processes all data securely, for example in secure premises and on secure IT systems. The JBC uses appropriate security measures to protect any information held in our records and has written security procedures and policies. All data subject rights under the General Data Protection Regulations and the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 2018 are upheld by the JBC.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 168846 question first answered 22/03/2021 17:30:54 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1302552

registered interest
date	15/03/2021
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	Joint Biosecurity Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what safeguards are in place to protect the security of the data held by the Joint Biosecurity Centre; and whether covid-19 patients will be (a) informed about their details being held on such a database and (b) able to submit a subject access request for that data.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	168846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>The Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) holds and processes personal data to provide evidence-based, objective analysis, assessment and advice to inform local and national decision-making in response to COVID-19 outbreaks. This includes helping to inform action on testing, contact tracing and local outbreak management. The insight and analysis supports decision-makers at a local and national level to take effective action to break the chains of transmission and to protect the public.</p><p>The JBC stores and processes all data securely, for example in secure premises and on secure IT systems. The JBC uses appropriate security measures to protect any information held in our records and has written security procedures and policies. All data subject rights under the General Data Protection Regulations and the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 2018 are upheld by the JBC.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 168845 question first answered 22/03/2021 17:30:54 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones