gov.uk<\/a>.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government what criteria are used to determine key workers; and what plans they have to add cleaners to the published list.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1187350", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Treasury"}
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<\/p>
The Chancellor previously announced a 100% rates holiday for eligible retail, hospitality and leisure properties in 2020-21. On 25 March the Government went further and removed some of the exclusions for this relief, so that eligible retail, leisure, and hospitality properties that will have to close as a result of the measures announced by the Prime Minister in his statement of the 23 March, will now be eligible for the relief.<\/p>
<\/p>
Support is also available to those not eligible for business rates relief. This includes the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme for small and medium-sized businesses, a statutory sick pay relief package, the HMRC Time To Pay Scheme, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to help firms continue to keep people in employment, and a new lending facility from the Bank of England for larger firms.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government why (1) betting shops, (2) bingo halls, and (3) casinos, were excluded from the business rate holiday; and what plans they have to extend such businesses the same relief as granted to other retail and leisure businesses.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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The Chancellor has made clear that, for those businesses which have an appropriate policy that covers pandemics, government\u2019s medical advice of 16 March is sufficient to allow businesses to make a claim against their insurance, provided the other terms and conditions in their policy are met.<\/p>
<\/p>
In addition, the FCA\u2019s rules require insurers to handle claims fairly and promptly; provide reasonable guidance to help a policyholder make a claim, and appropriate information on its progress; not reject a claim unreasonably; and settle claims promptly once settlement terms are agreed.<\/p>
<\/p>
However, most businesses have not purchased insurance that covers pandemic related losses. As such, any affected businesses should note the government\u2019s full package of support.<\/p>
<\/p>
The Government is in continual dialogue with the insurance sector about its contribution to handling this unprecedented situation.<\/p>"}
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On 5 March 2020, the Government added COVID-19 to its list of notifiable diseases.<\/p>
Insurers\u2019 policies that cover notifiable diseases will typically only cover a specific subset of notifiable diseases (such as cholera or anthrax) that the insurer will reference in the policy documentation. These policies will exclude any notifiable disease not on the insurer\u2019s list, as well as future/unknown diseases such as COVID-19. The price that the insurer charges for the policy is modelled against the risk posed by this set list of diseases.<\/p>
Some businesses will have purchased add-ons for their insurance that cover for \u2018unspecified notifiable diseases\u2019. These policies effectively cover any disease listed as a notifiable disease, enabling the business to claim for losses for all notifiable diseases as well as from diseases that are unknown at the point the policy is written.<\/p>
The effect of the Government adding COVID-19 to its list of notifiable diseases is to ensure that businesses with unspecified notifiable disease cover are able to make a claim \u2013 subject to the terms and conditions in their policy. For example, someone infected with COVID-19 may need to have been on the premises.<\/p>
<\/p>"}
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The UK Government takes a science-based approach to genetically modified organism (GMO) policy and regulation. Our view is that genome-edited organisms should not be subject to GMO regulation if the DNA changes could have occurred naturally, or through traditional breeding methods.<\/p>
No genetically modified or genome-edited crops are grown commercially in the UK.<\/p>
The UK Government supports choice for both farmers and consumers. Before any GMO crops are grown here, we will need to put rules in place to segregate production methods and facilitate that choice. These rules will be based on independent scientific advice and they will take the potential for cross-pollination into account.<\/p>"}
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The Government implemented recommendations from Sir Michael Pitt\u2019s review through the Flood and Water Management Act 2010. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee\u2019s report on the Post-legislative scrutiny of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 was in its Sixth Report of Session 2016\u201317, published on 26 April 2017.<\/p>
<\/p>
The Government response to the Committee\u2019s report notes that planning practice guidance includes a hierarchy for sustainable drainage options that favours non-sewer solutions. Draining to a combined sewer should be the least favoured option in new development, to be considered when sustainable drainage options are not reasonably practicable. Removing the right to connect to an existing sewer therefore would offer no clear benefits over current arrangements and is likely to add costs and delay to the planning process for new housing.<\/p>"}
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The National Health Service and wider health system are extremely well prepared for these types of outbreaks and follow tried and tested procedures of the highest standards to protect staff, patients and the public. The Department has stepped up its efforts to assess risks to the availability of medical supplies and put in place contingencies to help ensure uninterrupted supply.<\/p>
These efforts have included:<\/p>
- a response group has been established to evaluate the potential impacts of this situation on continuity of supply of medical goods;<\/p>
- asking suppliers to conduct a full risk assessment of the impact of the situation on their supply chains;<\/p>
- requesting that suppliers who still retain some or all of their European Union exit stockpiles, should hold on to them, while the Department considers more targeted approaches;<\/p>
- directing NHS Supply Chain to pause ramp-down activity of the centralised stock-build of medical devices and clinical consumables; and<\/p>
- contacting all known medical suppliers trading from or via China.<\/p>
Working closely with industry, the NHS and others in the supply chain, we continue to monitor the situation to help prevent shortages and minimise the risks to patients.<\/p>"}
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Combined sewers that carry surface water from roofs and roads together with sewage from homes are a common sewage system. On occasion, storm sewage discharges occur from Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) when the risk of sewer flooding is high and pipework capacity is exceeded. This is done to reduce the flood risk to homes and businesses. The Environment Agency (EA) has looked at the reasons for rivers not achieving good ecological status and found that about 3% of water bodies are failing due to the impact of CSOs.<\/p>
<\/p>
To prevent spillages, between 2015 to 2020 water companies are installing monitors on up to 13,000 of the 15,000 CSOs in England. These will measure how often and for how long they operate, helping inform where improvement works may be required and providing information to the public about spills. This information has been used to help develop the environmental programme that the water companies will be implementing over the next five years. This includes further monitoring of CSOs, over 700 investigations and more than 200 schemes for environmental improvement or to reduce the spills from CSOs.<\/p>
<\/p>"}
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