Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West and Pudsey)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to require (a) DBS checks and (b) other robust scrutiny measures for private carers.
Answered by Gillian Keegan
There are currently no Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check or other pre-employment check requirements for private carers. Individual employers can choose to carry out recruitment checks, such as DBS, on potential private carers before offering a contract. We have no plans to bring forward requirements or regulations for private carers.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West and Pudsey)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to (a) the public purse and (b) individuals of hotel quarantining for covid-19.
Answered by Jo Churchill
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before prorogation.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West and Pudsey)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the £1,750 quarantine fee paid by travellers goes towards sustenance costs.
Answered by Jo Churchill
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before prorogation.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West and Pudsey)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the £1,750 quarantine fee paid by travellers goes towards testing costs.
Answered by Jo Churchill
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before prorogation.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West and Pudsey)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the £1,750 quarantine fee paid by travellers goes towards security costs.
Answered by Jo Churchill
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before prorogation.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West and Pudsey)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the £1,750 quarantine fee paid by travellers goes towards accommodation costs.
Answered by Jo Churchill
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before prorogation.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West and Pudsey)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which companies have been awarded contracts for the hotel covid-19 quarantine system.
Answered by Jo Churchill
The Managed Quarantine Service consists of contracts with Corporate Travel Management, G4S, Mitie and Corps Security.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West and Pudsey)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total value is of service credits applied to SITEL’s contract to run call centres under NHS Test and Trace.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Service credits have not been applied to SITEL’s contract to run call centres under NHS Test and Trace.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West and Pudsey)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total value is of service credits applied to Serco’s contract to run call centres under NHS Test and Trace.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Service credits have not been applied to Serco’s contract to run call centres under NHS Test and Trace.
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West and Pudsey)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of countries the UK has imported personal protection equipment from each month in the last six months.
Answered by Jo Churchill
We have continued to receive personal protective equipment (PPE) ordered earlier in the pandemic to provide a reliable and sustainable stockpile. The following table shows the available data on inbound supply from September 2020 to February 2021.
September 2020 | China, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United States of America, Vietnam |
October 2020 | Belgium, Cambodia, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam |
November 2020 | Cambodia, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Vietnam |
December 2020 | Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Vietnam |
January 2021 | Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Vietnam |
February 2021 | China, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Vietnam |
Alongside the central programme, some providers or wholesalers may have continued to procure stock from other countries.