Written answers

Wednesday, 7 April 2021

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what measures his Department is putting in place to ensure that invitations from his Department or the NHS to vaccination hubs do not...

    • Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Minister for covid-19 Vaccine Deployment responds to the letter of 15 December 2020 from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on...

      Care Homes: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of prioritising covid-19 vaccinations for the relatives of care home residents...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that covid-19 vaccination centres meet required health and safety standards.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will prioritise the covid-19 vaccination of people living in the same household as people with blood cancer in the latter stages.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason a volunteer covid-19 vaccinator is required to have two A-levels.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will prioritise (a) bus, (b) train and (c) taxi drivers for receipt of the covid-19 vaccine.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to include staff working in (a) nursery schools and (b) other early year providers in the same priority...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2020 to Question 124263, on Coronavirus: Vaccination, what dataset his Department is using to...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of prioritising kinship carers in the covid-19 vaccination programme.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that covid-19 vaccines are accessible for people with mental health issues.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reducing the length of time between provision of first and second covid-19...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of covid-19 vaccination centres required for every (a) local authority and (b)...

      Prisons: Coronavirus

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prisoners are eligible for the covid-19 vaccine; and how many (a) prisoners in JCVI priority groups (i) 1-4 and (ii) 5-9 and (b)...

      Coronavirus: Easington

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons covid-19 vaccine appointments are being cancelled in the Easington constituency.

      Coronavirus: Screening and Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including shop workers providing essential services in the priority group for...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of his Department working with scientists to communicate the safety and effectiveness...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will publish the modelling used to determine initial vaccination targets.

      Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to collect comprehensive data on the number of (a) covid-19 tests taken, (b) positive covid-19 test results, (c)...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people who have been offered a covid-19 vaccine have refused the vaccine in (a) West Yorkshire and (b) England.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of where frontline charity staff that provide fact to face support for people affected by dementia will be...

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Horizon Europe

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of their decision to remove the cost of association with Horizon Europe from the provision for research and development in the UK...

    • Small Businesses: Redundancy

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the survey by takepayments, published in February, which found that 30 per cent of small businesses have had to let staff go due...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that homeless people receive COVID-19 vaccinations.

    • North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group

      To ask Her Majesty's Government why the North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group approved the control of eight GP Services contracts to be passed to Operose Health; and what...

      NHS: Apprentices

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of interest in NHS apprenticeships; and what estimate, if any, they have made of the number of people they expect to...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish a daily report of the number of people who have received a COVID-19 vaccination in each 24 hour period.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to tailor their approach to BAME communities to aid uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how long the immunity resulting from the COVID-19 vaccines lasts for in different (1) age, and (2) ethnic, groups.

      Coronavirus: Care Homes

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when they first started testing all care home staff for COVID-19 in England.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many COVID-19 vaccines have been disposed of in the UK as a result of missed vaccination appointments.

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide denominator information (1) by priority groups for COVID-19 vaccination, and (2) by ethnic group, to local public health directors...

      Kidney Diseases: Medical Treatments

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will undertake a review to assess the benefits of home haemodialysis compared to in-centre dialysis for supporting dialysis patients safely to...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the government of Israel's approach to administering vaccinations for COVID-19; and what aspects of that approach, if any, they...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to deliver a 24 hour a day COVID-19 vaccination programme.

      Coroners: Perinatal Mortality

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made regarding the consultation on coronial investigations of stillbirths since it closed on 18 June 2019.

      Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the measures (1) in place to address the COVID-19 pandemic, and (2) aimed at minimising the impact of...

      Miscarriage: Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they conducted a consultation to inform their actions pursuant to section 3 of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc.) Act...

      Coronavirus: Vaccination

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will publish all the vaccine effectiveness assessments which Public Health England has provided to date to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and...

      Prisoners: Mental Health

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wolfson of Tredegar on 10 March (HL13677), what assessment NHS England & Improvement has made of the impact on the...

      Gambling: Health Services

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they will give to gambling-related harm as part of their forthcoming cross-government Addiction Strategy.

      Euthanasia and Suicide

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the study 'Does Euthanasia Have a Dampening Effect on Suicide Rates? Recent Experiences from the Netherlands', published in...

  • Department for Education

    • ICT: Further Education

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Learning and Work Institute Disconnected? Exploring the digital skills gap, published on 22 March; and what...

    • Languages: GCE A-level and GCSE

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by Global Future Silenced Voices, published on 10 March; and what plans they have to help community language teaching...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Courts: Coronavirus

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce delays to court cases arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

    • Prisoners' Release

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were released from prison while serving a determinate sentence of 20 years or more in the last year that figures are available; and of these, how...

      Prisoners

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people currently in prison serving an imprisonment for public protection sentence who have spent a total period of 10 years or more in custody have been...

      Prisons: Visits

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to prioritise the use of videophones by prisoners with children while family visits are not possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and what...

      Prisoners

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prisoners currently sentenced to imprisonment for public protection were convicted of theft.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Zimbabwe: Human Rights

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Zimbabwe about the human rights situation in that country; and in particular, about (1) reports of...

    • Cruise Missiles: Proliferation

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking within appropriate multilateral institutions to develop a strategic response to the proliferation of cruise missiles (1) to foster...

      Niger: Economic Situation and Politics and Government

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the political and economic situation in Niger.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Trapping

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to prevent the deaths of (1) birds, and (2) non-target species, in glue traps; and what consideration they have given to a potential ban on...

    • Marine Animals: Animal Welfare

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide legal protections for aquatic animals.

  • Home Office

    • UK Border Force: Northern Ireland

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what additional support has been offered to Border Force officers in Northern Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    • Immigration Act 1971

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) arrests, (2) prosecutions, and (3) convictions, there were for offences committed under section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971 in each of...

      European Institute of Human Sciences

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the activities of the European Institute for Human Sciences in respect of any risk to (1) UK national security, and (2) the...

      Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made, if any, of the threat to national security posed by the preacher Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips.

      Crime: Ethnic Groups

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps (1) they have taken, and (2) they intend to take, to address the level of (a) domestic abuse, (b) violence against women and girls, (c) hate...

      International Open University

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the activities of the Islamic Online University in respect of any risk to (1) UK national security, and (2) the incidence of...

  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

    • Housing: Business Premises

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how their proposals in the Supporting Housing Delivery and Public Service Infrastructure consultation to allow the conversion of use Class E units to residential...

    • Council Housing: Electrical Safety

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of electrical safety issues in local authority housing stock.

      Grenfell Tower: Fires

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many residents made homeless by the fire at Grenfell Tower are still in temporary accommodation.

      Local Government: Carbon Emissions

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to work with local government to deliver national strategies for carbon reduction.

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