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HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapTo the best of my memory, the Labour Opposition were advocating during the early stages of the crisis that we should secure PPE from, I think, a theatrical impresario who…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question and congratulate him on the spectacular throne on which he appears to be sitting. Not so long ago, he and I were together in the…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapYes, indeed. I am grateful to my hon. Friend because that is exactly why we wish to take this cautious but irreversible approach to make sure that we do not have to go back into…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapOf course, we will continue to look after those who are self-isolating and improve their support where we can, as I have said. As for the contracts that the hon. Lady just…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapMy right hon. Friend is completely right in the analogy he draws. The only reason I am able to say to the country that we must learn to live with covid as we live with flu in the…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI thank the right hon. Lady and repeat the point that I have made to her many times before, although I am grateful to her for raising this again: we will continue to look after…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapWith your permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on the road map that will guide us cautiously but irreversibly towards reclaiming our freedoms, while doing all we can to…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI am very grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for his overall support for the road map. Indeed, I also welcome his support for the vaccine roll-out. I am sure that…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI thank my right hon. Friend for what he said just now. I totally understand where he is coming from and the urgency of those in the hospitality sector who want to open up as soon…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. She is quite rightly a doughty campaigner for the aviation industry and all that it brings to our country. I can tell her that we will…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapWe have among the toughest quarantine measures anywhere in the world, as the right hon. Gentleman well knows, including the mandatory incarceration in hotels appointed by the…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapYes, indeed. I pay tribute again, as I have many times before, to the incredible work of not just our NHS staff, but our social care staff, who have really borne the brunt of the…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapMy right hon. Friend raises a very interesting point. Our scientific advisers are looking at everything we can do, including the means that he suggests, to reduce transmission of…22 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapThe right hon. Gentleman is entirely right to draw attention to the particular suffering endured by vulnerable groups throughout this pandemic. That is why those with learning…22 Feb 2021HANSARDIntelligence and Security Committees Northern Ireland-related Terrorism ReportOn 5 October 2020, the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC) published its report entitled “Northern Ireland-Related Terrorism” (NIRT). Our thoughts remain with…11 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend; I know that this issue is very close to her heart, and she is right to raise it. Of course there are pressures from covid, but we are also worried that…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. I have made it absolutely clear to our EU friends and partners that we want to make our relationship work, but it is also absolutely essential that there should be…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsThere are some countries in Europe that do not even have a hotel quarantine scheme such as the one that we are putting in on Monday. We have among the toughest border regimes…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend asks an extremely important question. We recently announced an agreement for 50 million doses with the manufacturer CureVac because we believe that that may…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am afraid that I think that the right hon. Lady is doing Wales down, the people of Wales down and the ingenuity of Wales down, because I think about a quarter of the airline…10 Feb 2021