Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his timetable is for announcing the next funding settlement between the Government and the Post Office.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of the recommendations of the all-party Parliamentary group on rural health and social care's report on rural health provision in England.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of the recommendations outlined in the all-party Parliamentary group on rural health and social care's report on rural health provision in England.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason Devon was not selected as one of the 55 Education Investment Areas despite ranking within the top 55 areas with the lowest Standardised KS2 and KS4 composite measure.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason local authorities with higher attainment outcomes designated as Opportunity Areas were chosen as Education Investment Areas ahead of local authorities with lower attainment outcomes.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of the end of the temporary suspension in March 2022 of pension penalty protections introduced in respect of the NHS pension scheme during the covid-19 outbreak on senior doctors’ decisions on (a) early retirement and (b) reductions in their working hours.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the implications on workforce of the expiration of the temporary covid-19 measures allowing retired NHS staff to return to work without pension penalties.
Anne Marie Morris: I congratulate the Secretary of State on his “Levelling Up” paper, but particularly mission 7 to level up health outcomes and wellbeing. Will he meet me to discuss levelling up health and care provision in rural areas as part of that mission, a blueprint for which was published yesterday in a report co-authored by the all-party parliamentary group on rural health and social care, which I...
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a pension scheme for higher paid NHS staff that is similar to the Judicial Pensions Scheme 2022.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of variability in success-rate of testing across England’s seven Genomic Laboratory Hubs.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much and what proportion of the Welcome Back Fund has been distributed to local authorities.
Anne Marie Morris: I will try to be brief, Sir Edward. The hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Bob Seely) has raised a first-class, crucial issue. Clearly we cannot predict the future, but we can prepare for it. Traditional crisis management and risk management list the possible things that might happen and look at the severity and the likelihood, and based on that we produce a number of models. That is the old way...
Anne Marie Morris: The cost of gas and electricity has been a real challenge for my constituents. Although the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) makes a good point about the rural communities in Scotland, it is not just in Scotland that this is a challenge. Down in the south-west, we have one of the lowest-wage economies, a very high cost of living, and a disproportionate...
Anne Marie Morris: The hon. Gentleman makes a very fair point—this is a real problem. The hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross made the clear point that the answer and solution has to be found now. I look at my constituents—indeed, I was on a telephone call just this morning—and I see that the food banks are doing great business. Increasingly, I am hearing that the people who are using...
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department applied the Government's rural proofing process when determining recipients of Levelling Up Fund grants.
Anne Marie Morris: I, too, am delighted that we are having this debate today, because broadband and the connectivity it gives us in the west country is crucial because we are significantly underserved in just about every other infrastructure one can possibly conceive. The hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Luke Pollard) has articulated some of the challenges on our railway. It must not be...
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason employers are no longer able to order covid-19 lateral flow tests for their business on gov.uk; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reinstating that service.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the highest performing schools are for apprenticeship starts for level 3 qualified 18 year olds from the latest available data held by his Department; and if he will make a statement.
Anne Marie Morris: The heart of these regulations is all about slowing transmission and reducing demand on our limited NHS capacity, so there are two ends to this telescope. The first is about prevention and making sure that people do not get covid. The second is about making sure the capacity is there so that if they do get covid we can cure not just them, but other patients who have non-covid-related...
Anne Marie Morris: The extended vaccine roll-out is welcome to prevent infection, but given that this puts even more pressure on resources, what steps have the Government taken in tandem to increase capacity in the NHS to address the increasing demand from both covid and non-covid patients? I know that the Army is being brought in, but what about Nightingale hospitals? Might they be reinstituted? Will we look...