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HANSARDEngagementsWe have throughout followed scientific advice and done everything we can to minimise disease and suffering throughout the country. The right hon. Gentleman will have heard my…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy hon. Friend and I have visited wonderful schools in his constituency together; we know the fantastic job they are doing. I know from talking to those teachers and those pupils…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 UpdateI wonder whether the hon. Lady is proud of attacking the vaccines taskforce for spending £675,000 on whether vaccines would reach the most vulnerable people in our society.27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateAbsolutely. My hon. Friend makes a very important point, and we must get people to take up their appointments and take up the vaccines when they are offered. Some groups are…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point, and one that has been made many times on both sides of the House. We will, of course, do everything we can to assist those who are…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, indeed. The hon. Gentleman is right to raise the problem of differential learning. Unquestionably, some kids, and some families, in some parts of the country have suffered…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 2021HANSARDEngagementsIn a few moments, later this afternoon, I will set out in more detail what my hon. Friend would like to know about our approach to schools, and in the course of the next few…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI share my hon. Friend’s sense of frustration about the pace of the vaccine roll-out. In spite of the fact that we have the fastest roll-out anywhere in Europe, it is entirely…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsFirst of all, I must absolutely contest and deny what the hon. Member has said about action. She talks about coalmines, and she may not know that in 1970—I was alive; she may not…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. I thank my hon. Friend for what she is doing to campaign for such an excellent charity and, indeed, for her constituent David. I can tell her that the Department of…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI very much respect my right hon. Friend’s suggestion and I understand the logic of what he is saying, but I believe that the people of this country should be self-isolating, in…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI look forward to what the devolved Administrations do later, but I can tell the House that we are putting in the toughest measures virtually anywhere in the world, and my right…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, indeed, I join my right hon. Friend in congratulating not just the NHS, the Army and the pharmacies but the volunteers who are making the vaccine roll-out possible. We are…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Gentleman knows very well that the attribution of genocide is a judicial matter, but I can say for myself that I regard what is happening in Xinjiang to the Uyghurs…20 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsAbsolutely. I know that my hon. Friend knows of what she speaks. She is completely right to say that they are partners in care and should not be considered as visitors. That is…20 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsI can tell the hon. Lady, who I know has campaigned hard and well on behalf of her constituent, and quite rightly, that we are working virtually round the clock to secure the…20 Jan 2021