kirklees council acted swiftly a nd factory. kirklees council acted swiftly and efficiently.overnment's easing of lockdown we will see these localised outbreaks and with the health and safety executive having their budget cut by 50% since 2010 candy government ensure that kirklees and other councils will have all the money they need to keep our communities safe, and also what investigations are going ahead from from government to look at why meat processing particularly is exposed to covid—19 outbreaks notjust here and in this country and around the world so we can keep those members of staff safe? mr speaker, we are certainly looking into what is happening to meat processing and she is right to call attention to that, we have seen it in anglesey, we have seen it in germany, we need to get the of what is happening, we are putting more into health and safety executive are chinos, another £14 million we are getting to bolster our health and safety executive, —— as she and local councils will be bolstered in the implementing of locks and dams by the joint bio—security centre so

there is another in kirklees in yorkshire.o—security centre as our eyes and ears. so there are these local outbreaks. we have seen them all the way through, and we now have the system in place to be able to spot them as best we can, and then take them as best we can, and then take the local action. it is natural as the lockdown live slightly, we always said, that the next movie is to see more localised action in order to tackle outbreaks where we find them. —— the next move. anything to add on that? we have a large scale test tracing service running now and if you look at the scale of the national service in terms of tests conducted per 100,000 population, in terms of contact tracers per 100,000, it stands comparison with anyone in the world, so we have a service that is fit for purpose but as we stand now, and it will get better and better with each passing week. thanks, tom. the next question is from andy bell of channel five news. thank you. a question for both of you. the app has been described as the cherry on the cake as

with local authorities and the biosecurity sent her to stamp out local spikes like we have seen in kirkleeswith that. you are the minister for business and industry, do you know how many have been given redundancy notices while on furlough. 0n looking at a report that says up to 2 million jobs could be lost in september as the government cuts the furlough scheme —— i'm looking. do you currently know how many people have been given their notice while on furlough. so, the numbers i have is that around 31% of the workforce are working from home. about 40% are actually working in their workplaces. specific to redundancy notices? i hear you. about 10 million people, or around that, who are not working at all. we monitor the different groups and the announcements from different companies in terms of consultations around redundancies. the reason we introduced... do you know how many people have been given redundancy notices during furlough? to be honest, no i don't, but what we do is we make sure we monitor each and every announcement from every corporate around the country, and we look at figures