Asked by: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they had with the World Snooker Championship, prior to its decision to exclude clinically vulnerable people from attending the event at the Crucible Theatre in May
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The Events Research Programme (ERP) is running its first phase of 10-15 pilots in April and May to inform decisions around the safe removal of social distancing at Step 4 of the Roadmap. The pilots will be run across a range of settings, venues, and activities so that findings will support the full reopening of similar settings across multiple sectors.
We fully recognise the importance of these inclusion concerns and are reflecting on issues of diversity, inclusion and equality in the Events Research Programme, ensuring the pilot events cover a range of age groups, ethnicities, geographic location and accessibility.
The pilot events are the first steps to helping all members of the public safely back to mass events and these have been developed under a SAGE framework in line with the latest PHE and DHSC guidance.
Our Science Board has reviewed the Events Research Programme’s approach to clinically extremely vulnerable individuals attending the pilot events.
They strongly urge caution for the clinically extremely vulnerable attending the events on public health grounds, however these groups are not excluded from involvement in the pilots.
All attendees are required to fill out a consent form as part of the sign up process for the research programme, given the increased risk of COVID 19 transmission on account of the relaxation of some risk mitigation factors (social distancing and numbers attending).
For each pilot event, a Public Sector Equality Duty impact assessment is being carried out before each event which considers the impact of this scientific study on groups with protected characteristics, including those with disabilities.
Asked by: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the decision by the World Snooker Championship to refuse entry to fans that are considered clinically vulnerable to the event at the Crucible Theatre in May, and (2) the consistency of the decision with (a) government guidelines, and (b) equality legislation.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The Events Research Programme (ERP) is running its first phase of 10-15 pilots in April and May to inform decisions around the safe removal of social distancing at Step 4 of the Roadmap. The pilots will be run across a range of settings, venues, and activities so that findings will support the full reopening of similar settings across multiple sectors.
We fully recognise the importance of these inclusion concerns and are reflecting on issues of diversity, inclusion and equality in the Events Research Programme, ensuring the pilot events cover a range of age groups, ethnicities, geographic location and accessibility.
The pilot events are the first steps to helping all members of the public safely back to mass events and these have been developed under a SAGE framework in line with the latest PHE and DHSC guidance.
Our Science Board has reviewed the Events Research Programme’s approach to clinically extremely vulnerable individuals attending the pilot events.
They strongly urge caution for the clinically extremely vulnerable attending the events on public health grounds, however these groups are not excluded from involvement in the pilots.
All attendees are required to fill out a consent form as part of the sign up process for the research programme, given the increased risk of COVID 19 transmission on account of the relaxation of some risk mitigation factors (social distancing and numbers attending).
For each pilot event, a Public Sector Equality Duty impact assessment is being carried out before each event which considers the impact of this scientific study on groups with protected characteristics, including those with disabilities.
Apr. 16 2021
Source Page: Event Research Programme - ministerial directionsFound: THE EVENTS RESEARCH PROGRAMME DIRECTION ΠBETFRED SNOOKER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2021 THE HEALTH PROTECTION
Apr. 16 2021
Source Page: Event Research Programme - ministerial directionsFound: Cup second semi-final 2021 PDF, 336KB, 5 pages Events Research Programme direction - Betfred Snooker
Apr. 16 2021
Source Page: Information about the Events Research Programme (ERP), paving the way for larger audiences to attend sport, theatre and gigs safely this summerFound: as part of the government’s plan to safely get big crowds back this summer, starting with the World Snooker
Mentions:
1: Jonathan Edwards (IND - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) Members should be required to emblazon their private benefactors on their clothing in the same way that snooker - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (Jonathan Edwards) that like snooker players—I perhaps look like - Speech Link
3: Angela Eagle (LAB - Wallasey) Why was Greensill—an unregulated shadow bank with a toxic business model—allowed access to the coronavirus - Speech Link
4: Julie Marson (CON - Hertford and Stortford) That is in addition to the British Business Bank’s review of Greensill’s compliance with the coronavirus - Speech Link
5: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) Indeed, at one point he tweeted proudly about CLBILS—the coronavirus large business interruption loan - Speech Link
Apr. 14 2021
Source Page: Coronavirus Acts: sixth report to Scottish Parliament (April 2021)Found: Coronavirus Acts: sixth report to Scottish Parliament (April 2021)
Laid - 8 Apr 2021 In Force 10 Apr 2021
These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020 to add upcoming events, and remove finished events, from the list of specified competitions in Schedule 3 to those Regulations. That list is relevant to the exemption for sportspersons from self-isolation.
Found: Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Information for Passengers) (England) (Amendment
Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2021
Inquiry: The future of UK music festivalsFound: For example, one of them is going to be in the Crucible for the snooker world championships, because
Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) many congratulations to the winner, Nartnapa Thai Kitchen in Lynton.The sector is also wracked with coronavirus-related - Speech Link
2: Holly Mumby-Croft (CON - Scunthorpe) them and their ties with the community, with places like Mulligans Sports Bar sponsoring local darts, snooker - Speech Link
3: Emma Hardy (LAB - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) and look seriously at Labour’s plan for debt recovery, and support businesses having to pay back the coronavirus - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) venue in my constituency, to plant a tree as part of its memorial to the lives lost at the hands of coronavirus - Speech Link