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HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI can say to my noble friend that there will be a review on international travel. The Department for Transport will be leading a successor to the Global Travel Taskforce, working…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapMy noble friend is right, but we should recognise that hospitals and staff have gone to extraordinary lengths to deliver non-Covid care and treatment, from online consultations to…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapMy noble friend is right and, like the noble Lord and the noble Baroness, I pay tribute to everybody involved in this fantastic effort. As my noble friend will know, more than…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI thank the noble Baroness and the noble Lord for their comments and for their broad welcome of the road map. I will now attempt to answer some of their questions. The noble…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI am sure that the noble Lord will agree that the NHS and its staff have done a fantastic job in treating patients with Covid, of which there have been more than 250,000 in the…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI assure the noble Lord that the chief medical officers speak regularly on a whole range of subjects, including this one. I think the Chief Medical Officer for England mentioned…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI thank my noble friend for his question and continued support of rugby league, which I know is very dear to his heart. As he will know, DCMS and BEIS have been working with…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI am sure that my noble friend will agree that the immediate priority was to open schools; we have all agreed to that. This is why the first step is the reopening of schools on 8…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapAs I said, the £500 support payment has been extended, so parents of children who are isolating are now eligible for it. In addition to that, we are increasing, to £20 million a…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapWe are committed to publishing government contracts as quickly as possible. As my right honourable friend the Secretary of State said, the reason that some contracts were…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI thank the noble Lord. I believe that by the end of March all organised outdoor sport for children, and all outdoor children’s activities, will be allowed under the road map.…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI can certainly assure the noble and gallant Lord that the design of the road map has been informed by the latest scientific evidence and is a balance between the societal and…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI am happy to say that outdoor attractions can open in step 2 and, as I have said, we have been looking at the economic data, social data, vaccination data and everything in the…23 Feb 2021HANSARDClerk of the ParliamentsMy Lords, on 30 September I informed the House of Ed Ollard’s intention to retire from the office of Clerk of the Parliaments, with effect from 1 April. The recruitment process…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19The right reverend Prelate is absolutely right. While we are putting in support to help now, we recognise that the long-term damage caused by this extensive period in which young…28 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19We have in fact put in place one of the world’s most comprehensive economic packages in response to the pandemic, spending over £280 billion on support so far. That is absolutely…28 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19The noble Baroness makes an eloquent case, but I have set out where we are with prioritisation. As we have said, the JCVI’s advice is clear that we should initially focus our…28 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness and noble Lord for their comments. Like them, my thoughts and sympathies are with every family that has tragically lost loved ones during this…28 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I can assure my noble friend that new data around the impact of the new strain is being continually looked at and a lot of work is going on to survey and understand the new…28 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19People from any country have to fill out a passenger locator form, on which they have to declare which countries they have previously visited. Any traveller coming into the…28 Jan 2021