Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of social care capacity in Garston and Halewood constituency.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
No specific assessment has been made. Local authorities have a responsibility under the Care Act 2014 to ensure that the care needs of the local population are met.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to reply to the letter on behalf of a constituent from the hon. Member for Garston and Halewood of August 10 2021 on student nurse debt and the abolition of nurses and allied trades bursaries.
Answered by Edward Argar
We responded to the hon. Member’s letter on 1 November 2021.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what impact assessment he has undertaken on the potential economic effect of the introduction of hotel based covid-19 quarantine measures on (a) airlines, (b) airports, (c) tourism and (d) hospitality businesses.
Answered by Jo Churchill
While the Government has not undertaken a formal impact assessment, we continue to consult widely with the travel and hospitality sector, including through the Global Travel Taskforce.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the rapid covid-19 testing procedure agreed between (a) his Department, (b) Public Health England and (c) Jaguar Land Rover.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The standard operating procedure ‘Clinical Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Mass Testing with Lateral Flow Antigen Testing Devices – Workplace Asymptomatic Test Site’ and terms and conditions ‘DHSC Terms and Conditions for Covid-19 Testing of Employees 1.3’ with Jaguar Land Rover are attached.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority issued an exceptional use authorisation for the use of lateral flow covid-19 testing on a daily basis at (a) Jaguar Land Rover and (b) other Government workplace pilots.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority issued an exceptional use authorisation on 23 December 2020.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for the Government pilot of lateral flow testing at Jaguar Land Rover and other workplaces of the MHRA's refusal to authorise the daily use of that testing in schools.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has not refused to authorise daily lateral flow testing in schools. The MHRA excluded daily testing of one type of lateral flow device which was not deployed in schools.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the MHRA authorised the use of lateral flow testing on a daily basis in workplaces such as Jaguar Land Rover which are piloting the operation of the Government's protocol in workplaces.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued an exceptional use authorisation to the Department, who have taken on the role of legal manufacturer. The devices deployed for daily contact testing at workplaces such as Jaguar Land Rover have received a CE mark for supervised use. As long as use of the devices is supervised, as is the case at Jaguar Land Rover, the MHRA considers their use within the CE mark and no further authorisation is required.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether daily lateral flow testing following exposure to a colleague that has tested positive for covid-19 obviates the need for self-isolation for ten days.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Anyone identified as the close contact of someone who has tested positive must complete their full self-isolation period, regardless of any negative test result during this period. The incubation period for COVID-19 varies from person to person and a test taken during the self-isolation period may not therefore necessarily detect the virus.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he had with airline and airport representatives prior to the announcement of a policy of hotel based covid-19 quarantine from certain destinations in order to mitigate the effect of that policy on the viability of regional airports.
Answered by Jo Churchill
Over the few past weeks, Government Ministers and officials have engaged with stakeholders from across the aviation, maritime, hotel and hospitality industries and are finalising plans to implement the new scheme.