Anne Marie Morris: I welcome the Bill, and I particularly welcome its aims and objectives to provide the best possible health and care to everyone in this country. However, to achieve that, things must change in the legislation. It must have explicit provisions for mental health, not just physical health. It must also include provisions for children’s social care, not just adult social care, and provide for...
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation on the potential merits of reducing the gap between first and second covid-19 vaccinations to three-to-six weeks; and whether there is sufficient vaccine supply to meet that arrangement.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the Government's long-term strategy is on tackling the backlog of people who have not started their first cancer treatment.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the validity of evidence that suggests that people who are immunocompromised or immunosuppressed may not receive the same level of protection from the covid-19 vaccines as the general population.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the prevalence of employers dismissing customer-facing staff who refuse to have a covid-19 vaccination.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2021 to Question 2300 on Hospitality Industry: Recruitment, what steps his Department has taken as a result of those discussions to help hospitality and tourism businesses with recruitment.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department plans to share further details on the additional £1.5 billion of business rates relief for businesses that are ineligible for retail discount or business grant schemes as announced on 25 March 2021.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to support businesses with employees who may be reluctant to come off of furlough arrangements and return to the workplace as covid-19 restrictions are eased.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing hybrid local council meetings to continue while there are still cases of covid-19.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2021 to Question 10396, how much of the £2.3 million was allocated to Visit Devon.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2021 to Question 10396 on Tourism: Coronavirus, what the timescale is for the Government's independent review of Destination Management Organisations.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans does his Department has to support the growth of solar energy in the UK.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government plans to take to support businesses that are responsible for holiday pay accrued while staff were on furlough during the covid-19 outbreak.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the impact of employers being responsible for holiday leave accrued by staff while on furlough, on small businesses.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of returning to in-person local council meetings during the outbreak of covid-19 on wide and full participation in those meetings.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with relevant stakeholders on the closure of high street bank branches and the potential effect of those closures on businesses that deposit cash.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the harmful effects on children of the consumption of ultra-processed foods.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions officials in his Department have had with (a) NICE and (b) NHS England on the changes needed in the NICE methods and process review to deliver on the Government’s ambition to be a global life sciences hub.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions officials in his Department have had with (a) NICE and (b) NHS England and NHS Improvement on setting levels of ambition in the NICE Methods Review.
Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the announcement from the US Food and Drug Administration on the poor efficacy of Innova covid-19 tests, whether he has plans for the (a) authorisation of alternative covid-19 rapid lateral flow tests, including those being produced in the UK and (b) extension of the exceptional use authorisation from the Medicines...