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HANSARDCovid-19Absolutely, and I thank my right hon. Friend and her fellow Blue Collar Conservatives for that initiative. It was entirely right, and those corporations—those supermarkets—were…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19Yes, I think I share my hon. Friend’s constituents’ instincts. Perhaps a cautious presumption is what I would advise them to make.06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19That is entirely upside down and misrepresents what the package of support has done. The £260 million is overwhelmingly progressive and goes disproportionately to support the…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19My hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight what is going on in Somerset. The county obviously has a duty to use covid grants for that purpose and not for any other. I thank…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19Yes, indeed, but I think the arrangements that are being put in place by the mobile phone companies and others will cover the vast bulk of the cost, at the very least. I am happy…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19There will be a Budget in the course of the next few weeks and months, as I am sure the right hon. Gentleman is aware. He is also aware that the Government have made substantial…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19Yes, indeed. I will ask the Minister to write to my hon. Friend as soon as possible.06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19My hon. Friend speaks entirely for me in what he says about the need to blast away bureaucratic obstructions. I am proud to say, at the moment, that we have vaccinated more than…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I do not think anybody in this House takes any pleasure or satisfaction whatever in what we are being forced to do, but the right hon. Gentleman should know that lockdowns like…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19Ipswich will benefit from not just kickboxing jabs, but vaccination jabs. That will enable us to get through this crisis all the faster. I am delighted by what my hon. Friend…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I thank our armed forces from the bottom of my heart. I very much share in what my hon. Friend has just said. They have played an outstanding role throughout this pandemic—where…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I really must ask the hon. Gentleman to withdraw what he has just said. I did not at any stage say that schools were not safe—that is absolutely not what I said. In all fairness,…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19Yes, indeed. I thank my hon. Friend for his words about the vaccine taskforce. It was, as I say, satirised by the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19The hon. Lady is absolutely right to draw attention to the potentially vital role of community pharmacies, of which there are about 12,000 in this country, as I am sure she knows.…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I am really grateful to my hon. Friend for his support and for what he has just said. We want to roll out the vaccine across the whole country as fast as possible. It is, I hope,…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I make common ground with the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras: it is thanks to our United Kingdom NHS, and thanks to the strength of UK companies, that we…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19My right hon. and learned Friend makes a very important point that I know will be on the minds of everybody in the House, and everybody watching this can understand now the kernel…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I remember it well: it was at Prime Minister’s questions, Mr Speaker. It would be a good thing if the right hon. and learned Gentlman could continue to keep up that spirit. Let me…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that this House should, and, I think, will inevitably, be given an opportunity to debate and discuss these issues at a national…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. On his questions about the self-employed, we have supplied, as I said to the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras…06 Jan 2021