Commons Chamber
Covid-19 Update - Wed 19 Jan 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) Yesterday, the all-party parliamentary group on coronavirus heard heartbreaking testimony from frontline - Speech Link
2: Siobhan Baillie (CON - Stroud) The impact on businesses, including in my beloved weddings sector, has been serious, with fears about - Speech Link
3: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) Minister’s statement did not include measures to recover the £4.3 billion fraudulently claimed through coronavirus - Speech Link

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Select Committee

Humanists UK

CIL0068 - The Government's response to covid-19: human rights implications of long lockdown

Written Evidence Nov. 25 2021

Inquiry: The Government's response to covid-19: human rights implications of long lockdown
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: are not receptions Œ indeed, Government 1 ‚New coronavirus law limits humanist weddings to six, when

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Written Question

Weddings: Coronavirus

Wednesday 26th January 2022

Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley Central)

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 potential merits of ensuring weddings for terminally ill people are not subject to any future public health restrictions.

Answered by Maggie Throup

In light of the existing restrictions being lifted, the Government has not made a recent assessment. However, should further restrictions be required in future, we would consider what exemptions would be appropriate.

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Departmental Publication (Open consultation)
Ministry of Justice

Dec. 20 2021

Source Page: Outdoor marriages and civil partnerships
Document: Consultation document (PDF)

Found: , Anglican weddings on the authority of a special licence , and any other religious weddings

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Written Question

Weddings: Coronavirus

Thursday 13th January 2022

Asked by: Paul Howell (Conservative - Sedgefield)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support the Government has made available for local authorities to support wedding industry businesses and those in the supply chain for that sector that have been affected by the covid-19 outbreak.

Answered by Paul Scully

The Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant provides local councils with one-off grant funding to support  hospitality, leisure and accommodation businesses in England.  Further information can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-youre-eligible-for-the-omicron-hospitality-and-leisure-grant.

The Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) provides local councils with grant funding to support businesses that are severely impacted by coronavirus and the rise of the Omicron variant, which are not eligible for other grant funding. Further information can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-youre-eligible-for-the-coronavirus-additional-restrictions-grant.

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Select Committee

25th Report - Instruments under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018: Published Draft Instruments, Proposed Negative Instruments; Drawn to the special attention of the House: Building Regulations etc. (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2021; Includes information paragraphs on: 12 instrument relating to COVID-19

Inquiry Publications Jan. 13 2022

Committee: Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee

Found: The requirements revert to the previous position, that is that all close contacts of a coronavirus

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Lords Chamber
Covid-19 Update - Wed 08 Dec 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) complied, sometimes at enormous personal cost—the businesses that were forced to close; the family weddings - Speech Link
2: Lord Kamall (CON - Life peer) epidemiologists, showing the data and separating the omicron variant, the delta variant and the original coronavirus - Speech Link

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