Daily Report Tuesday, 21 April 2020 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 21 April 2020 and the information is correct at the time of publication (07:59 P.M., 21 April 2020). For the latest information on written questions and answers, ministerial corrections, and written statements, please visit: http://www.parliament.uk/writtenanswers/ CONTENTS ANSWERS 6 Personal Care Services: Non- ATTORNEY GENERAL 6 domestic Rates 14 Crown Prosecution Service: Post Offices: Franchises 14 Finance 6 Retail Trade: Coronavirus 14 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND Retail Trade: Protective INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 6 Clothing 15 Clean Steel Fund 6 Security: Staff 16 Conditions of Employment: Telephone Services: Kidney Donors 6 Coronavirus 16 Construction and Retail Trade: Utilities: Billing 16 Coronavirus 7 Utilities: Staff 17 Construction and Utilities: CABINET OFFICE 17 Coronavirus 8 Advertising: Digital Technology 17 Construction: Coronavirus 8 Cleaning Services: Staff 18 Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme 9 Constituencies 18 Employment: Coronavirus 9 European Commission and European Parliament: Employment: Telephone Parliamentary Scrutiny 19 Services 10 Fixed-term Parliaments Act Iron and Steel: Furnaces 10 2011 20 Low Carbon Hydrogen Members 20 Production Fund 11 Mobile Phones: Coronavirus 20 Marriage: Coronavirus 11 Murder: Merseyside 21 Newsagents: Prices 12 National Income 21 Offshore Industry: North Sea 12 Parliamentary Scrutiny: Personal Care Services: Coronavirus 21 Coronavirus 13 2 Tuesday, 21 April 2020 Daily Report DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Food Supply: Coronavirus 44 SPORT 22 Litter 46 Broadband 22 Litter: Standards 46 Entertainments: Coronavirus 22 Milk: Prices 46 Mass Media: Coronavirus 22 Polychlorinated Biphenyl: EU Pop Festivals: Coronavirus 23 Law 47 Voluntary Work: Coronavirus 24 Supermarkets: Coronavirus 47 EDUCATION 24 Veterinary Medicine: Apprentices: Coronavirus 24 Coronavirus 48 Apprentices: Training 25 FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 48 Basic Skills: Standards 25 Animals: Markets 48 Care Leavers and Children in Care: Equality 26 Australasia: Coronavirus 49 Childminding: Coronavirus 26 Australia: Coronavirus 50 Children: Coronavirus 29 British Nationals Abroad: Coronavirus 50 Children: Day Care 30 Cayman Islands: Taxation 55 Children: Social Services 33 China: Coronavirus 56 Free School Meals 34 China: Uighurs 57 Free School Meals: Coronavirus 35 Colombia: Homicide 58 GCE A-level and GCSE: Colombia: Human Rights 59 Assessments 36 Coral Princess: British Higher Education: Coronavirus 36 Nationals Abroad 59 Home Education: Coronavirus 36 Coronavirus: Disease Control 60 Nurseries: Coronavirus 37 Ecuador: Coronavirus 61 Schools: Coronavirus 40 Egypt: Coronavirus 61 Students: Coronavirus 41 Guyana: Elections 62 Students: Loans 42 Honduras: Coronavirus 62 Teachers: Coronavirus 42 Indonesia: British Nationals Abroad 63 ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS 43 Integrated Security, Defence and Foreign Policy Review 63 Animal Welfare 43 Integrated Security, Defence, Dogs: Animal Breeding 43 Development and Foreign Flood Control: Finance 43 Policy Review 64 Flood Control: South Yorkshire 44 Kuwait: Coronavirus 64 Tuesday, 21 April 2020 Daily Report 3 Libya: Armed Conflict 64 Medical Equipment: Business 78 MS Zaandam: British Naloxone: Coronavirus 79 Nationals Abroad 65 NHS: Telephone Services 79 New Zealand: Coronavirus 65 Public Health Laboratory Northern Cyprus: British Service: Coronavirus 80 Nationals Abroad 66 Yarl's Wood Immigration Peru: Coronavirus 66 Removal Centre: Coronavirus 80 Taliban: Peace Negotiations 67 HOME OFFICE 80 Third Sector and Trade Asylum 80 Unions: Coronavirus 67 Asylum: Legal Opinion 81 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 68 Breweries: Licensing Laws 81 Air Ambulance Services: Civil Servants: Remote Coronavirus 68 Working 81 Coronavirus: Cleaning Coronavirus: Domestic Services 68 Violence 82 Coronavirus: Dental Services 69 Domestic Abuse and Sexual Coronavirus: Disease Control 70 Offences: Coronavirus 82 Coronavirus: Hospital Beds 71 Domestic Abuse: Coronavirus 83 Coronavirus: Hospital Ships 72 Entry Clearances: Coronavirus 83 Coronavirus: Hospitals 72 Immigrants: Coronavirus 84 Coronavirus: Intensive Care 72 Immigrants: Detainees 84 Coronavirus: Mental Health Immigrants: Employment 85 Services 73 Immigrants: Government Coronavirus: North West 73 Assistance 85 Coronavirus: Protective Immigrants: Homelessness 86 Clothing 73 Migrant Workers: Social Coronavirus: Public Health 74 Security Benefits 87 Coronavirus: Screening 74 Police Custody: Coronavirus 88 Coronavirus: Ventilators 76 Police: Protective Clothing 88 Drugs: Misuse 77 Police: Stoke on Trent 88 Eating Disorders: Medical Public Transport: Disease Treatments 77 Control 89 Health Professions: Disease UK Visas and Immigration: Control 77 Compassionate Leave 89 Health Services: Coronavirus 78 UK Visas and Immigration: Immigrants: Detainees 78 Remote Working 89 4 Tuesday, 21 April 2020 Daily Report Visas 90 Iran: Coronavirus 103 Visas: Migrant Workers 90 Israel: Palestinians 103 HOUSE OF COMMONS Kurdistan: Coronavirus 104 COMMISSION 90 Overseas Aid: Coronavirus 104 Electronic Voting: Coronavirus 90 Overseas Aid: Developing House of Commons: Remote Countries 105 Working 91 Palestinians: Coronavirus 106 HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND UNRWA: Coronavirus 106 LOCAL GOVERNMENT 92 Yemen: Coronavirus 107 Business Improvement Districts: Coronavirus 92 INTERNATIONAL TRADE 108 Council Tax: Coronavirus 92 Department for International Trade: Wines 108 Estate Agents: Coronavirus 93 Import Controls: Food 108 Food Supply: Coronavirus 93 Overseas Trade: Australia 108 Homelessness: Coronavirus 94 Trade Agreements 109 Meals on Wheels: Coronavirus 95 Trade Agreements: Australia 109 Private Rented Housing: Coronavirus 95 JUSTICE 110 Rents: Coronavirus 96 Debt Collection: Coronavirus 110 Second Homes: Coronavirus 96 Jury Service: Coronavirus 111 Social Services: Shropshire 97 Magistrates Courts: Coronavirus 111 Supported Housing: Staff 97 National Probation Service for INTERNATIONAL England and Wales: Pay 112 DEVELOPMENT 98 Trials: Coronavirus 112 CDC: Fossil Fuels 98 Wills: Coronavirus 112 Coronavirus: International Cooperation 98 NORTHERN IRELAND 113 Coronavirus: Vaccination 99 Abortion: Northern Ireland 113 Developing Countries: TRANSPORT 113 Coronavirus 99 Aviation: Redundancy 113 Foreign Aid: Coronavirus 100 British Nationals Abroad: Gaza: Coronavirus 101 Coronavirus 114 Humanitarian Aid: Coronavirus 102 Driving: Licensing 114 Integrated Security, Defence Driving: Working Hours 115 and Foreign Policy Review: Garages and Petrol Stations: Coronavirus 103 Coronavirus 115 Tuesday, 21 April 2020 Daily Report 5 Government Assistance: Loans: Coronavirus 131 Regional Airports 115 Mortgages: Coronavirus 131 Logistics: Coronavirus 116 PAYE: Coronavirus 132 Motor Vehicles: Testing 116 Pensions: Coronavirus 133 Taxis: Coronavirus 116 Roadchef: Employee Benefit Travel: Coronavirus 117 Trusts 133 TREASURY 117 Self-employed: Coronavirus 133 Agriculture: Non-domestic Spirits: Excise Duties 135 Rates 117 Statutory Sick Pay 135 Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties 118 Temporary Employment: Beer: Excise Duties 118 Coronavirus 135 Business: Coronavirus 119 Welfare Tax Credits 136 Business: Government WORK AND PENSIONS 137 Assistance 121 Attendance Allowance 137 Business: Insurance 122 Children: Maintenance 137 Catering: Coronavirus 122 Employment and Support Charities: Coronavirus 123 Allowance: Coronavirus 138 Charities: Non-domestic Rates 124 Universal Credit 138 Coronavirus Job Retention Universal Credit: Coronavirus 139 Scheme 124 WRITTEN STATEMENTS 141 Coronavirus Job Retention EDUCATION 141 Scheme: Agency Workers 126 Schools Capital Funding 141 Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Shipping 128 Support for Education Settings/Providers 141 Credit Cards: Fees and Charges 128 ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS 144 Employee Ownership 129 Update on Defra sectors 144 Employment: Coronavirus 129 JUSTICE 146 Insurance Companies: Coronavirus 130 Implementation of the Whiplash Reform Programme 146 Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries 130 Notes: Questions marked thus [R] indicate that a relevant interest has been declared. Questions with identification numbers of 900000 or greater indicate that the question was originally tabled as an oral question and has since been unstarred. 6 Daily Report Tuesday, 21 April 2020 ANSWERS ANSWERS ATTORNEY GENERAL Crown Prosecution Service: Finance Jerome Mayhew: [901773] To ask the Attorney General, what plans she has for the allocation of the £80 million CPS budget increase announced in the Spending Round 2019. Michael Ellis: The Government is investing across the justice system and has invested £85m in the CPS up to 2021. This will enable the CPS to respond effectively to the expected increase in caseload resulting from the recruitment of 20,000 new police officers; to better meet its disclosure obligations; to work with investigators to pursue all reasonable lines of inquiry; and to deliver much needed changes to external counsel fees. Investing in the CPS, to support it to respond to these pressures, demonstrates this Government’s commitment to ensuring that justice is served. BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Clean Steel Fund Liz Saville Roberts: [34388] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2020 to Question 30846, whether he is taking steps to mitigate the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the timetable for implementing the Clean Steel Fund. Nadhim Zahawi: The Coronavirus