Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Helen Whately and Jason McCartney

Tuesday 7th December 2021 Commons Chamber

[Helen Whately]

The green homes grant and its associated scheme for the Chancellor’s plan for jobs saw £1.75 billion invested in improving more than 100,000 homes. We are now bringing in a more targeted replacement, the home upgrade grant, to support low-income households, and that received £950 million at the spending review. We will continue to support low-income households to ensure that they become more energy efficient, which is good for keeping bills down and an important part of our net zero transition.

[Jason McCartney (Colne Valley) (Con)]

8. What steps his Department is taking to encourage regional growth across the UK.

NHS Update

Debate between Helen Whately and Jason McCartney

Wednesday 21st July 2021 Commons Chamber

[Helen Whately]

The hon. Lady refers to the importance of making sure that only those who really benefit from in-patient treatment should be in in-patient units. We know that is often not the case for autistic people, and sometimes those with learning disabilities, who are in-patients. We are working through our “building the right support” programme to reduce the number of in-patients, and we will continue to do so.

[Jason McCartney (Colne Valley) (Con) [V]]

Local services, businesses and schools across my Colne Valley constituency have been severely impacted by absences as a result of staff being pinged. We already know that, from mid-August, those who have been double jabbed will not have to isolate when pinged, but with such a successful roll-out of vaccinations in my part of Yorkshire, why can it not happen now?

[Helen Whately]

I appreciate my hon. Friend’s point, but the fact is that isolation is an important part of our defences against this virus. At the moment, therefore, we have to ask people who are pinged by the Test and Trace app to isolate in order to break the chains of infection.