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HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateOnce again, the right hon. Gentleman has the answer contained in his question. This country is going through a grievous bout of a deadly pandemic. He rightly draws attention to…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe right hon. and learned Gentleman asks about mistakes, and I have said that there will be a time to reflect, to analyse, to learn lessons and to prepare. However, I say to him…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for meeting the families of the bereaved, as I have done and I know Members of the House have done throughout the pandemic.…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that issue. I have come across this problem before, but the case he describes is obviously acute and I will ensure that he gets the…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and she is right to be militating for the eastern leg of HS2. We will be publishing the integrated rail plan early this year, and I am…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateAs I say, it has been one of the few consolations of this pandemic to see the way the country has come together to fight it, particularly to see the way that great national…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy right hon. Friend is completely right and he gets to the heart of the problem in the pretend policy that has been announced by the Opposition party. If we were to interfere…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Member for Wansbeck (Ian Lavery) and I share an ambition. We want to unite and level up across the whole UK, and that is the mission of this Government. I am afraid he is…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI very much respect the point of view of my hon. Friend, who has long been a keen and justified campaigner for liberty. I share his instincts very strongly, but I must tell him…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am very doubtful that the people of Salford would be deprived in the way that the hon. Lady describes, but I will of course look into it urgently and my hon. Friend the vaccine…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI very much join the hon. Gentleman in congratulating schools on what they have done to make themselves covid-secure, and the incredible amount of work they are doing to educate…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe have supported the aviation sector throughout, through the time to pay scheme and others, and we have just introduced particular support for airfields with runways that are not…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy hon. Friend is entirely right in what he asks for, and I will supply, I hope, exactly that. He will recall how last year we set out a series of dates by which we hoped to do…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateOf course my hon. Friend is right to raise that. I thank him, but I will just repeat what I said earlier to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, the Leader of the Opposition. It…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I will of course set all this out in the course of the next few weeks. What I can tell the House are some obvious things that the House can…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Lady makes an excellent point about the need to roll out rapid test kits. That is happening in communities, towns and cities across the country, and I commend her for…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy hon. Friend is spot on. Schools are safe. The only issue with opening them is that, as I said to the House earlier, they add to the overall budget of transmission because lots…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWhat I will say is that we certainly were able to use speed and agility to deliver on the programme that we needed. It would have been a great pity if we had followed the advice…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI can confirm to the hon. Gentleman that we will make sure that his constituents get exactly what they need for the roll-out to groups 1 to 4. I am assured by the Minister for…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI congratulate the hon. Lady on being so much more sensible than her party leader, who is saying that he wants to interrupt the vaccine roll-out for the vulnerable groups and…27 Jan 2021