Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"Back in the real world, we have seen food bank use rocket over the last 12 years—the Trussell Trust alone distributed 2.5 million emergency food parcels in 2020-21, compared with 40,000 in 2010—and it is set to balloon further as the cost of living soars. That is not tackling poverty …..."Andrew Gwynne - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 18 Mar 2022
British Sign Language Bill
"My hon. Friend started her speech on Third Reading by paying tribute to all those campaigners who went before her and the magnificent landmark changes that they fought for over the years. It would be remiss of us not to get on the record our thanks to her for bringing …..."Andrew Gwynne - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 18 Mar 2022
British Sign Language Bill
"My hon. Friend is making a powerful contribution. The nub of what she is saying is that this is a battle for equality: equality of opportunity for children and young people going through education; equality of treatment for deaf people, ensuring that they are treated with respect; equality of access …..."Andrew Gwynne - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Mar 2022
DWP Estate: Office Closures
"On two occasions now, the Minister has referred to the equalities impact assessment, saying that this amounts to relatively small numbers of people at each site who will be affected, but over the whole estate, “small” can add up to a lot of individuals. Given that these jobs are located …..."Andrew Gwynne - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 3rd March 2022
Asked by:
Andrew Gwynne (Independent - Gorton and Denton)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department is issuing to employers to support their immunocompromised staff to work safely from their place of work after the existing covid-19 infection control measures are lifted.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The Department of Health and Social Care have the lead and alongside UK Health Security Agency released guidance on COVID-19: guidance for people whose immune system means they are at higher risk . This was most recently updated on 25 February 2022. In order to assist employers, the Health and Safety Executive provides a link to this guidance on its website.
Written Question
Tuesday 8th February 2022
Asked by:
Andrew Gwynne (Independent - Gorton and Denton)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to communicate with employers on advice for immunosuppressed people to continue to work from home.
Answered by Chloe Smith
In December 2021, the Department of Health and Social Care and UK Health Security Agency released guidance on COVID-19: guidance for people whose immune system means they are at higher risk . This included advice to work from home if possible. If a person is unable to work from home, they should speak to their employer about what temporary arrangements they can make to reduce that person’s risk.
In order to inform employers of this, the Health and Safety Executive updated it’s guidance Protect vulnerable workers - Working safely during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to include a section on workers who are immunosuppressed and the advice mentioned above.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"In theory this should be an excellent initiative, but the Minister will know that the previous veterans action plan, for 2019 to 2021, promised to
“increase the number of Jobcentre Plus Armed Forces Champions and District Leads from the current position of around 45 unfunded, part-time posts to funding an …..."Andrew Gwynne - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 28 Jan 2022
British Sign Language Bill
"I commend my hon. Friend on bringing forward this legislation to the House of Commons. It is long overdue and builds on the work that she mentioned earlier. The fact is that there are 90,000 primary users of British Sign Language in the United Kingdom today, and probably another 60,000 …..."Andrew Gwynne - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 28 Jan 2022
British Sign Language Bill
"My hon. Friend is making a powerful case in support of this excellent Bill. Our hon. Friend the Member for West Lancashire (Rosie Cooper) gave her really personal experience of how, as a very young child, she had to communicate with adults and the adult world on behalf of her …..."Andrew Gwynne - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 20th January 2022
Asked by:
Andrew Gwynne (Independent - Gorton and Denton)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance in Denton and Reddish constituency.
Answered by Chloe Smith
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 19th January to question number 104377.