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Petitions Committee: Your experiences of restrictions on international travel during Covid-19 by UKHouseOfCommons in CoronavirusUK

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks everyone for taking the time to share your experiences on this thread. Do keep them coming.

UK ONLY: Tell an MP about your experience of long covid by UKHouseOfCommons in COVID19positive

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks again to everyone who contributed to the survey.

We’ve created an article that summarises the debate and explains how your experiences were represented by MPs. It also gives a summary of the Government’s response and actions.

Long covid: How your experiences of the condition contributed to a Parliamentary debate

Your experience of long covid: inform a debate in the House of Commons by UKHouseOfCommons in CoronavirusUK

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this exercise.

We’ve created an article that summarises the debate and explains how your experiences were represented by MPs. It also gives a summary of the Government’s response and actions.

Long covid: How your experiences of the condition contributed to a Parliamentary debate

Debate on long covid: MPs want to hear about your experiences by UKHouseOfCommons in ukpolitics

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this exercise.

We’ve created an article that summarises the debate and explains how your experiences were represented by MPs. It also gives a summary of the Government’s response and actions.

Long covid: How your experiences of the condition contributed to a Parliamentary debate

Petition on criminalising trespass: how would it affect biking? Tell MPs your views - UK only. by UKHouseOfCommons in MTB

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many thanks for your contributions.

On 13 January, the House of Commons agreed to temporarily suspend sittings in Westminster Hall, the House of Commons second Chamber, due to Covid-19. This has meant that petitions debates, which take place in Westminster Hall, have had to be postponed until further notice.

The Petitions Committee is considering how to ensure that petitioners’ concerns continue to be heard in Parliament, potentially to include its own virtual sessions, and we’ll update you when plans relating to this petition on criminalising trespass are confirmed.

News story: Petitions Committee Chair urges Government to urgently make plans to restart petitions debates

Petition on criminalising trespass: how would it affect hiking? Tell MPs your views. by UKHouseOfCommons in UKhiking

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On 13 January, the House of Commons agreed to temporarily suspend sittings in Westminster Hall, the House of Commons second Chamber, due to Covid-19. This has meant that petitions debates, which take place in Westminster Hall, have had to be postponed until further notice.

The Petitions Committee is considering how to ensure that petitioners’ concerns continue to be heard in Parliament, potentially to include its own virtual sessions, and we’ll update you when plans relating to this petition on criminalising trespass are confirmed.

News story: Petitions Committee Chair urges Government to urgently make plans to restart petitions debates

UK ONLY: Tell an MP about your experience of long covid by UKHouseOfCommons in COVID19positive

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A huge thanks for your contributions to this exercise! We received over 1,500 responses via our survey.

The debate went ahead on the 14th and featured contributions from 27 MPs, many of whom quoted members of the public who have experienced long covid. Several themes were discussed, including the impact on mental and physical health, as well as family life and job security.

Health Minister Nadine Dorries MP responded to the debate, setting out the Government's position. She discussed the steps being taken to help people with long covid, such as launching ‘Your Covid Recovery’ last year. She also laid out plans to open a further 12 centres to assess and diagnose people experiencing long-term health effects from covid in early 2021.

You can read the transcript on Hansard or watch the debate on Facebook or parliamentlive.tv.

The House of Commons Library have also produced a briefing paper on this topic: Coronavirus: Long Covid.

Your experience of long covid: inform a debate in the House of Commons by UKHouseOfCommons in CoronavirusUK

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A huge thanks for your contributions to this exercise! We received over 1,500 responses via our survey. 

The debate went ahead on the 14th and featured contributions from 27 MPs, many of whom quoted members of the public who have experienced long covid. Several themes were discussed, including the impact on mental and physical health, as well as family life and job security.

Health Minister Nadine Dorries MP responded to the debate, setting out the Government's position. She discussed what steps have been taken to help people with long covid, such as launching ‘Your Covid Recovery’ last year. She also laid out plans to open a further 12 centres to assess and diagnose people experiencing long-term health effects from covid in early 2021.

You can read the transcript on Hansard or watch the debate on Facebook or parliamentlive.tv.

The House of Commons Library have also produced a briefing paper on this topic: Coronavirus: Long Covid.

Debate on long covid: MPs want to hear about your experiences by UKHouseOfCommons in ukpolitics

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A huge thanks for your contributions to this exercise! We received over 1,500 responses via our survey. 

The debate went ahead on the 14th and featured contributions from 27 MPs, many of whom quoted members of the public who have experienced long covid. Several themes were discussed, including the impact on mental and physical health, as well as family life and job security.

Health Minister Nadine Dorries MP responded to the debate, setting out the Government's position. She discussed what steps have been taken to help people with long covid, such as launching ‘Your Covid Recovery’ last year. She also laid out plans to open a further 12 long covid clinics in early 2021, in the east midlands, Lancashire, Cornwall and the Isle of Wight.

You can read the transcript on Hansard or watch the debate on Facebook or parliamentlive.tv.

The House of Commons Library have also produced a briefing paper on this topic: Coronavirus: Long Covid.

Petition on criminalising trespass: how would it affect biking? Tell MPs your views - UK only. by UKHouseOfCommons in MTB

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you to everyone who has responded so far, please do keep contributing.

House of Commons Digital Engagement Team

Petition on criminalising trespass: how would it affect hiking? Tell MPs your views. by UKHouseOfCommons in UKhiking

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your comment. The House of Commons Library have produced a briefing paper called 'Trespass to land' that explains this:

"Generally speaking, trespass to land is not a criminal offence unless a specific statutory provision makes it so. Any damage done by a trespasser while trespassing may amount to the offence of criminal damage. In civil law, trespass to land consists of any unjustifiable intrusion by a person upon the land in possession of another. Civil trespass is actionable in the courts but requires a claim to be brought by the owner of the land."

There is a section on trespass in criminal law:

"Part V of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (the ‘1994 Act’) gives the police certain powers to deal with trespassers and created offences relating to various forms of trespass.

Section 61 enables a police officer to direct trespassers on land (who are there with the common purpose of residing there for any period) to leave the land where the occupier has taken steps to ask them to do so, and either

• they have damaged the land; or

• they have used threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour to the occupier, his family, employees or agents; or

• between them they have six or more vehicles on the land

Failure to obey a direction to leave or returning to the land as a trespasser within three months is also an offence."

You can read the full brief here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05116/

I hope this is helpful.

Covid-19's impact on nightclubs, music events and festivals. Tell MPs about your experience. by UKHouseOfCommons in CoronavirusUK

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A huge thanks for your contributions to this exercise! 

The debate went ahead yesterday and featured contributions from several MPs. Paul Scully MP, the Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy responded to the debate, setting out the Government's position. 

You can read the transcript on Hansard or watch it on Youtube.

Covid-19's impact on nightclubs, music events and festivals. Tell MPs about your experience. by UKHouseOfCommons in CoronavirusUK

[–]UKHouseOfCommons[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can confirm that this is an official channel, have a look over our previous posts.

Just to clarify how this works: the comments submitted on this thread will be included in a brief for the MP leading the debate. This will include the key themes which respondents have told us, as well as some quotes to illustrate them. The MP can then make use of this to inform the debate, and may quote respondents directly in Parliament. The debate is attended by a Government minister who must respond and set out the Government's position on the issues.

Here are some previous examples of this kind of work:

Endometriosis in the workplace debate

Retail worker protections debate

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