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Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee — House of Commons, 2020-11-12
Topic: Culture
Dehenna Sheridan Fareham (Conservative, Centre-right): The celebration of Britain’s first ever platinum jubilee will mean that the eyes of the world are placed firmly upon us. As well as showing our deep appreciation for Her Majesty’s years of unwavering dedication to public service, does my right hon. Friend agree that the jubilee celebrations present an exciting opportunity to showcase the very best of Britain’s cultural and artistic talents, including from those in Bishop Auckland?
Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee — House of Commons, 2020-11-12
Topic: Culture
Oliver James Dowden (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight the great talent in her constituency. It is one of the great opportunities of this jubilee to harness the talents of the creative industries and the best of British tech as we look back in ceremonials and forward with new concepts. I am sure that people from her constituency will contribute to that process.
Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee — House of Commons, 2020-11-12
Topic: Culture
Oliver James Dowden (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very happy to give that commitment. I have been very mindful of the opportunities for the creative industries. Of course, it is not just the platinum jubilee. We also have the festival of the United Kingdom in 2022, on which I am working closely with Martin Green; that will also create many opportunities for the creative industries.
Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee — House of Commons, 2020-11-12
Topic: Health
Oliver James Dowden (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s support. He raises an important point about the NHS, and I will pick that up with our colleagues in the Department for Health and Social Care. He is absolutely right to highlight the huge changes that we have seen in our nation, but, at the same time, we have had this constant of Her Majesty. That is the essence of the celebration. He is absolutely right about diversity, and it is so important that everyone in our nation feels they can come together and celebrate, and that the celebration reflects the diversity of modern Britain.
Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee — House of Commons, 2020-11-12
Topic: Health
Selaine Rachel Saxby (Conservative, Centre-right): With the positive news this week that there is a vaccine on the horizon, we can look forward to a future in which we can start to get back to normal. Will my right hon. Friend work with me to assist those in North Devon who will be planning to celebrate our monarch, who has served us in both good times and bad?
International Trade: Covid-19 — House of Commons, 2020-09-03
Topic: Defense
Ranil Malcolm Jayawardena (Conservative, Centre-right): Arm is a very successful business, and I have regular conversations with colleagues in a number of Departments. The most important thing is that we ensure the environment in the UK is one in which all sorts of businesses want to work and, of course, that we preserve our national security.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-09-03
Topic: Defense
Felicia Jane Beatrix Drummond (Conservative, Centre-right): I start by expressing my sadness and sympathies over the death of India’s former President, Pranab Mukherjee, earlier this week. India is the world’s second largest importer of arms, but although the UK has a superb defence and security industry, including companies such as Domo Tactical Communications in my constituency, India is not one of our major markets. What more can be done to export to, and strengthen defence ties with, the largest of our Commonwealth allies?
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-09-03
Topic: Defense
Ranil Malcolm Jayawardena (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sure the whole House will join my hon. Friend in sending sympathies. We are ramping up defence engagement. We supported Britain’s largest ever delegation to the Indian defence expo in February this year, including 160 British business leaders. India increasingly prefers to contract defence and security deals via Government-to-Government frameworks, so we are leading that cross-government work to enable British businesses to do more in the future.
Covid-19 Testing Capacity — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): We are processing coronavirus tests on an unprecedented scale and expanding capacity further, having already met our testing capacity target of 500,000 tests a day by the end of October. We now have five Lighthouse labs operating across the UK, with two more announced yesterday, and significant progress on next-generation testing technologies.
Covid-19 Testing Capacity — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Scott Lloyd Benton (Conservative, Centre-right): I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the tremendous progress he has made over recent months on increasing our testing capacity, including the delivery of a new site in my constituency. The recent announcement regarding care homes is welcome. How quickly does he think the trial process can be concluded, so that we can roll out a nationwide scheme to ensure that those in care homes can finally see their loved ones again?
Covid-19 Testing Capacity — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): We have discussed many times in this House the importance of the use of testing because of the terrible dilemma of wanting to keep people safe in care homes, yet also wanting to allow visiting. Testing can help to resolve that. The pilots are ongoing in some parts of the country, and I very much hope that we can get to a position where we can offer testing to enable visiting across the country before Christmas
Covid-19 Testing Capacity — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the testing pilots that are happening, including in Southampton. How will the Government be able to support local authorities and public health teams with the logistics of mass testing, particularly in large rural areas such as Hampshire?
Covid-19 Testing Capacity — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Increasingly, the test itself is only one part of getting a high-quality testing system. The logistics around it are also vital. We are already funding local authorities across the country to support them to roll out mass testing, but we will learn from the pilots, including in Hampshire, to see what extra might be needed.
NHS Capacity for Winter 2020-21 — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Edward John Comport Argar (Conservative, Centre-right): The Prime Minister has announced £3 billion to support NHS capacity this winter. Among other things, that money funds our Nightingale hospitals, so that surge capacity is available, and the NHS’s ongoing access to additional independent sector capacity. It also supports the safe discharge of patients, helping to reduce pressure on beds. In addition, £450 million of capital funding has been announced to upgrade and expand A&Es across the country, to help prepare the NHS for winter, and that money is already being spent.
NHS Capacity for Winter 2020-21 — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Michael Jon Wood (Conservative, Centre-right): The £3 million announced to increase winter capacity in Dudley is hugely welcome, but will my hon. Friend also look at Dudley’s bids for capital funding for a hybrid theatre and reconfiguration of critical care? Will he join me on a visit to Russells Hall, so that he can see the transformative effect that those projects would have on care for patients in Dudley South?
NHS Capacity for Winter 2020-21 — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Edward John Comport Argar (Conservative, Centre-right): I am delighted that my hon. Friend’s constituents will benefit from £3 million to increase capacity at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley as part of the investment to upgrade A&Es ahead of winter. Future NHS capital spending will, of course, be determined at the upcoming spending review, but once our settlement has been confirmed with the Treasury, we will consider carefully how projects are prioritised within it. In the meantime, I encourage the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust to discuss its proposals with NHS England and NHS Improvement. I would be happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss this, because I know how hard he campaigns on this issue, and I would be delighted to take him up on the offer of a visit when I am able to.
NHS Capacity for Winter 2020-21 — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Edward John Comport Argar (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. He is quite right to highlight the amazing work that our NHS and social care workforce have done throughout this pandemic, as they do every year, and I pay tribute to them for that. As he will know, the NHS agrees with its staff multi-year pay deals set by independent recommendations, and we continue with that process.
Lateral Flow Covid-19 Testing — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): In addition to giving local directors of public health access to tests, NHS Test and Trace will provide access to training, clinical, operational and service design guidance, and communication and engagement support. In addition, all local authorities have funding available up to £8 per head of population to support the roll-out.
Lateral Flow Covid-19 Testing — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Absolutely, the funding to support people who need to isolate is in addition to the funding I just outlined, which supports both the roll-out of mass testing and local contact tracing, and we always keep these things under review.
Personal Protective Equipment Supplies — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Johanna Peta Churchill (Conservative, Centre-right): We have a four-month stockpile of all covid-critical PPE in place. Thanks must go to the tremendous contribution from UK manufacturers, including Honeywell in Motherwell in Scotland, which now meet 70% of our PPE needs. We have distributed 4.7 billion items, ensuring health and care providers and others have access to the critical protective equipment that they need to help keep everyone safe.
Personal Protective Equipment Supplies — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Johanna Peta Churchill (Conservative, Centre-right): The global pandemic presented us with unprecedented challenges in securing the volumes of PPE required. We moved swiftly in order to make sure that we kept people safe. We procured goods and services, and worked with extreme urgency in accordance with procurement rules and Cabinet Office guidance. All offers were prioritised based on volume price, clinical acceptability and lead time. I am happy to reiterate: we have four months’ supply.
Personal Protective Equipment Supplies — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Johanna Peta Churchill (Conservative, Centre-right): I would like to thank the hon. Gentleman. In the main, many of our frontline operators are getting it free—social care, general practice, dentistry, optometry and so on. The relief was designed specifically to relieve the burden of VAT on sectors particularly affected by coronavirus while supply did not match demand. Now the Government are able to supply covid-related PPE across all sectors, the burden of VAT will still not fall on frontline providers for all covid-related PPE and demand will be met. Most businesses that make taxable supplies can recover the VAT that they incur on purchases of PPE as business expenses. They will therefore be able to reclaim all VAT after the 31st. But I reiterate: for the majority of frontline healthcare, it is free.
Personal Protective Equipment Supplies — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Johanna Peta Churchill (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sorry, Mr Speaker, but it is that old habit from being a mother of four We procure goods and services, as I have said, with extreme urgency in accordance with procurement rules and Cabinet Office guidance. We are confident of our supply, with four months’ worth of covid-critical PPE, over 70% of it now manufactured in the UK, providing UK businesses with jobs and ensuring that all health and care providers have access to critical protective equipment needed to keep patients and staff safe.
Building New Hospitals — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Edward John Comport Argar (Conservative, Centre-right): On 2 October, £3.7 billion-worth of funding was confirmed for 40 new hospitals, with a further eight schemes invited to bid for future funding, to deliver a total of 48 hospitals by 2030. Four in the programme are already in construction, and three others have commenced early, enabling works on site. The hospital building programme is, of course, in addition to significant upgrades to 20 hospitals, which will be complete by March 2024, and is part of a wider programme of investment.
Building New Hospitals — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Philip Martin Dunne (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to the Minister for those clarifications, and I obviously welcome this programme, but before he came into office, in March 2018, his Department allocated £312 million for a major capital programme at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. Now that an independent reconfiguration panel has confirmed that these decisions were properly made and should proceed, the trust is seeking approval from his Department for advance of funds for enabling work by architects, structural engineers and others. Can he confirm when this requested £6.3 million will be forthcoming?
Building New Hospitals — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Edward John Comport Argar (Conservative, Centre-right): I am pleased to confirm to my right hon. Friend, a distinguished predecessor of mine in this office, at this Dispatch Box that £6 million-worth of funding has been approved in principle, allowing Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust to develop its plans and produce a business case for this scheme. The Department will continue to work closely with the trust to understand how the right support can be provided centrally to develop an affordable case for the overall scheme and to maximise the impact of this funding, and I will be writing to my right hon. Friend with more detail later today.
Building New Hospitals — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Edward John Comport Argar (Conservative, Centre-right): I am delighted that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently gave these plans the green light following independent advice from the IRP, and I am pleased that this will mean my hon. Friend’s constituents and, indeed, many others will benefit from a new state-of-the-art NHS hospital in Sutton. Patients and the public will now be engaged in shaping the detail of the new services; I encourage all local people to participate positively in that process and the council and others to get behind that scheme and that record investment by this Government in his area.
Covid-19: Economic Effect — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): I have regular discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and others. The best strategy for both health and the economy is to suppress the virus, supporting the NHS and the economy, until a vaccine can make us safe.
Covid-19: Economic Effect — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Our strategy is to suppress the virus and support the NHS and the economy until a vaccine can make us safe. Increased ventilation can help to reduce transmission, so it is an important consideration, among many others, for how we tackle this disease.
Covid-19: Dental Services and Mouth Cancer Diagnosis — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Johanna Peta Churchill (Conservative, Centre-right): This Mouth Cancer Action Month is a timely reminder that everybody should seek advice if they are worried. Early in the first wave, dental services were suspended, but rapidly, over 600 urgent dental centres were set up to deliver care. Since June, dentists have continued to prioritise urgent treatment and vulnerable groups and to provide routine care across the dental network. They have worked hard to restore dental activities, while keeping patients and staff safe, owing to some aerosol-generating procedures that mean we have to take particular care in the dental sector.
Covid-19: Dental Services and Mouth Cancer Diagnosis — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Johanna Peta Churchill (Conservative, Centre-right): I recognise the hon. Lady’s concern in this area. I assure her that I am working closely with NHS Improvement and the chief dental officer. I have held several meetings over the past week alone, and tomorrow I am meeting the chair of the British Dental Association. Some areas of challenge that she articulates, such as fallow time and so on, are things that we are actively working on at pace, as well as looking at specific testing solutions for dentistry. We are also looking at the issue of ventilation. I am happy to report when further work has been achieved.
Covid-19 Vaccines — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Yesterday, the House will know that we secured 5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine, so we have now secured access to 355 million vaccine doses through agreements with seven separate vaccine developers. We have secured them for the whole UK.
Covid-19 Vaccines — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): We have done a huge amount of work. The deployment of the vaccine is, of course, being led by the NHS, which reaches into all parts of the UK. Our principled approach is that we will deploy the vaccine according to clinical need in every single part of the UK at the same time. That, of course, includes rural areas. A significant amount of work has gone into how best to deploy to rural areas, especially as some of the people who clinically will need to get the vaccine first are also those who might find it most difficult to travel. It is a very important question on which a huge amount of work is being done.
Covid-19 Vaccines — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Robert Joseph Roberts (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my right hon. Friend and fellow one nation Conservative for his hard work and that of his Department in impossible circumstances this year. Kate Bingham and the vaccine taskforce have done an amazing job in securing so many doses of vaccines, as and when they become available, which will be centrally procured by the UK Government and equally available across all parts of our United Kingdom. Does my right hon. Friend agree that that shows the power of all parts of the UK speaking with one voice and working together for the good of our entire Union?
Covid-19 Vaccines — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): I feel very strongly about this, and I agree very strongly with my hon. Friend. We should take forward this vaccine and ensure it is available fairly and equally across all parts of our United Kingdom. Of course, it will be deployed in each of the devolved nations through the devolved NHS. I have been working closely with my counterparts, and the four NHS organisations have been working together. Ultimately, let us hope that should a vaccine become available—we still do not yet have one authorised—it will be a moment at which the whole country can come together in support of making sure that those who are clinically most vulnerable will get support first wherever they live.
Anti-vaccination Disinformation Online — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Culture
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): The Culture Secretary and I discuss regularly with social media platforms the action that is needed to tackle vaccination disinformation online. I am encouraged by the fact that social media companies who have attended meetings with us have agreed to commit to the principle that no user or company should directly profit from covid-19 vaccine disinformation and to ensure a timely response when we flag such content to them.
Anti-vaccination Disinformation Online — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Damian Noel Thomas Collins (Conservative, Centre-right): It is obviously tremendous news that a vaccine will be available and that the people in the UK may be among some of the first in the world to receive it, but it is important that there is public confidence in the vaccine. The anti-vaccine movement is damaging: it is a threat to public health. Does my right hon. Friend agree that social media companies should not just be taking down anti-vaccine material when they are notified of it, but proactively looking for it on the internet and removing it themselves?
Anti-vaccination Disinformation Online — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, absolutely. A critical part of tackling disinformation is providing accurate, fair and objective positive information, and my hon. Friend is absolutely right about this point. The social media companies are working—and we are providing content for them—to ensure that proper, accurate information that the public can trust from the NHS about the effectiveness of vaccines can be promoted, as well as taking action to remove information that is not accurate and not correct.
Covid-19: Care Home Visits — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): We have been testing and have prioritised testing in care homes going back as far as May, and we have been carrying out whole care home testing. We are now testing over 500,000 staff and residents in care homes every week. Now, as testing capacity increases, we are launching the visitor testing trial with 20 care homes across Hampshire, Devon and Cornwall. We will use the lessons from that trial to roll out testing more widely across the country as fast as we possibly can.
Covid-19: Care Home Visits — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): I absolutely want to enable relatives to go and visit their loved ones in care homes, but we have to remember that we are against a backdrop where covid is incredibly cruel to those living in care homes. We have seen outbreaks that have gone from one resident across to almost all residents within a few days, with staff also affected, so we have to get the balance right. We have to make sure that we do this in a way that is safe to residents and staff. That is why we are carrying out the trial to learn the lessons, so that we do it right and so we can then safely roll out testing and more visiting across the whole country.
Covid-19 Testing Pilot in Liverpool — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): The Liverpool pilot will help to inform a blueprint of how mass testing can be achieved and how rapid testing can be delivered at scale. We are now making mass testing available right across the country.
Covid-19 Testing Pilot in Liverpool — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Heather Kay Wheeler (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my right hon. Friend for his reply. May I ask him to agree to extend the pilot for rapid testing to the whole of Derbyshire and Derby to give the pilot real work to compare our semi-rural area with the urban area of Liverpool?
Covid-19 Testing Pilot in Liverpool — House of Commons, 2020-11-17
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): We are now issuing test kits to 84 directors of public health across the country. I am very happy to work with Derbyshire and Derby to make sure that my hon. Friend’s request is taken up and we can make this happen.