Sir Christopher Chope

15 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Exercise Cygnus: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the principle of transparency set out on page 18 of the Government document entitled Our Plan to Rebuild: The UK Government’s COVID-19 recovery strategy, CP239, for what reason he

15 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will place in the Library the background material on which the Deputy Chief Medical Officer announced on 20 March 2020 that the country has a perfectly adequate supply of personal protective

13 May 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the priorities he has announced on re-opening schools during the covid-19 outbreak apply where there is a three tier education structure which includes middle schools; and if he will make a statement.

13 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Exercise Cygnus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May to Question 38420, what lessons resulted from Exercise Cygnus in relation to the importance of (a) personal protective equipment and (b) availability of intensive c

13 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Emergencies: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May 2020 to Question 38420 on Exercise Cygnus, which reports on exercises his Department has published in each of the last four years; and what criteria were applied in

13 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Dairy Products

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the proportion of milk and dairy products used in hospitals in England that came from UK producers; what steps he is taking increase that proportion; and if he will mak

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2020 to Question 40964, on General Practitioners, whether receptionists in GP practices are required to ask a GP or other healthcare worker to assess whether the tre

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons the delivery of supplies of personal protective equipment to local authorities under the Clipper system has been delayed; and when those supplies will be available to all local aut

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Laboratories: Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons NHS England has restricted the supply of chemical reagent for covid-19 testing to NHS hospital laboratories in Dorset; and if he will take steps to enable those laboratories to max

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Social Distancing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the evidential basis is for the Government's policy of requiring two metres minimum distance for social distancing during the covid-19 outbreak; on what grounds the Government has not set that

11 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Business Premises: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that employers take into account the recommendations of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers on increasing the air supply rate of air condition

6 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many covid-19 home testing kits were posted on (a) 29 April 2020, (b) 30 April 2020, (c) 1 May 2020 and (d) 4 May 2020; how many of those testing kits posted on each of those days has (i) been

6 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to Question 37422, on Protective Clothing, tabled on 20 April 2020 by the hon. Member for Christchurch.

6 May 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Empty Property: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it the policy of the Government to prevent people who are unable to sell an empty property during the covid-19 lockdown from being penalised under the Empty Prope

5 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to reduce the (a) administrative cost and (b) bureaucratic burden resulting from the annual re validation process for nurses; and if he will make a statement.

5 May 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Small Business Grants Fund: Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much of the £617 million of funding allocated to local authorities on 1 May 2020 to enable them to make discretionary grant payments to businesses is available for (a) Dorset

5 May 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Small Businesses: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will issue guidance to local authorities on the definition of eligibility for access to the £117 million fund for discretionary grant payments to businesses announced on 1

5 May 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will enable (a) schools and (b) education authorities to impose penalties on parents that do not permit their children to return to school on account of a fear of contracting covid-19; and if he will make

5 May 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Aviation: Volcanoes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason the contract for the Meteorological Office Civil Contingency Aircraft is not being renewed; and what alternative arrangements his Department is making to (a) asses

4 May 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Horticulture: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2020 to Question 40963 on Horticulture: Coronavirus, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) scientific advice and (b) risk assessment e

4 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to enable unemployed people to access training to work as (a) customs agents, (b) seasonal agricultural workers, and (c) other shortage occupations; and if she will make a state

4 May 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it the policy of the Government to use the Nightingale temporary hospitals as isolation hospitals for covid-19 patients so that other hospitals can prioritise patients without covid

4 May 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is the policy of the Government to reimburse local authorities the full cost of providing accommodation for homeless people during the covid-19 crisis when the people

29 Apr 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Police Patrolling: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether visits to a household recycling centre in England are categorised as necessary travel; and if he will take steps to prevent police intercepting vehicles travelling to such

29 Apr 2020 · Treasury

Business Rates: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to extend the small business rates relief for covid-19 to (a) independent mortgage advisors (b) private dental practices and (c) small veterinary practices; and if he will make a statem

29 Apr 2020 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish her assessment of the progress achieved in implementing the joint action plan by the UK and France on combating illegal migration involving small boats in the English Channel; and

29 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it the policy of the Government that no death certificate issued in respect of a care home resident in England should include reference to covid-19 unless a test has established tha

29 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Written Questions to his Department due for answer on (a) 26, (b) 27 and (c) 28 April (i) did not receive a substantive response on the named day and (ii) are still awaiting a substantive

28 Apr 2020 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that illegal immigrants detained in the UK after crossing the English Channel from France are either required to be returned immediately to France or placed in quarantin

28 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that GP surgeries are required to provide primary care to people without a registered doctor in order to discourage those people from having to present at A&E; and if