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HANSARDEngagementsThis morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. I thank my hon. Friend for raising this issue and, indeed, join him in thanking the NHS staff who are scaling up the surge testing in the way that he describes. I…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsMost business people I have talked to—I have talked to a great many in the past 12 months—would agree that no Government around the world have done more to support business,…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI have said repeatedly that what we will do in this Government and throughout this pandemic is put our arms around the British people, support them throughout the pandemic and…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 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe whole House and this country should be proud of the way in which we have tried to look after people—the poorest and neediest families throughout the country—not just with…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI must say that I reject entirely what the right hon. Gentleman has just said. I do not believe that any Government could have done more to help the people of this country…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I thank him for what he is doing in this area. I want the House to know that we want the UN COP26 summit to be a landmark event, not…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend, who is a great advocate of Somerset and is committed to his constituents. I thank him for what he is doing. He has raised this issue twice with me now, and…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Lady, because she is right to highlight the incredible sacrifice and effort of NHS staff, many of whom, sadly, have contracted covid in the course of their…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI can certainly confirm that we will do everything we can, and I know that the settled will of most people in this House is to get our schoolchildren back on 8 March, if we…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI can certainly confirm that we are going to develop the eastern leg as well as the whole of the HS2. The hon. Gentleman will be hearing a lot more about what we are going to do…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. I thank Brighton and Hove City Council for co-operating with Eastbourne Borough Council in getting this done. There must be co-operation. No one in this country…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsWe have seen above-inflation increases in public sector pay, and that is quite right. We particularly support increases in investment in our NHS, and the hon. Gentleman will know…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsAre they a national party without being nationalists? It is an interesting semantic point, Mr Speaker. However, I think they are trying to claim that they pioneered the living…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsWe have just announced the quarantine policy, which, as I have said to the House, is among the toughest in the world and certainly tougher than those in most other European…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI think most people in this country are aware that we are going through a very serious pandemic in which rates of infection have been steadily brought down thanks to the efforts…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady is on to something, but she is barking up the wrong tree. We are not cutting the green homes grant. The problem is that there has not been enough take-up, and we…10 Feb 2021HANSARDEngagementsI want to congratulate the great Conservative-controlled council of Bolton on everything that it is doing and continuing to do throughout this pandemic to look after the people of…10 Feb 2021