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HANSARDCovid-19The hon. Gentleman has raised this with me before, and he is an ardent campaigner for aerospace. He is quite right: it is a vital industry for our country. As he knows, we have…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I thank SEN schools, their staff, parents and pupils for everything that they are doing—and all the work that is being done, by the way, by teachers across the country to continue…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I thank my hon. Friend; he is absolutely right about people’s feelings across the whole country. They want a sense of when things are going to get better, and I have tried to give…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19The hon. Lady asks for a timetable, as indeed have many colleagues on both sides of the House. Business rightly wants as much certainty as possible. What we have now, for the…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19Pettifogging, yes; malicious, no. I am going to have to take the hit here. The intention is to stop the virus, protect the NHS and save lives. To do that, we have to engage in…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I thank the right hon. Gentleman, who seems to recapitulate what the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras has already asked me, as though he were still doing…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 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-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-19We have increased the support for those who are self-isolating and, obviously, have increased the penalties for those who fail to do so when they are asked to by Test and Trace.…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19My hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise that question and that is why we are putting so much cash—£300 million—in to help schools and young people continue with their…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19I am sure the right hon. Lady, for whom I have a keen regard, would not wish to accuse the Chancellor of wilful misrepresentation, Mr Speaker. All the cash that we have announced,…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19Yes, indeed. I will ask the Minister to write to my hon. Friend as soon as possible.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-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 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 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. 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 thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman, who made some sensible points, in addition to some slightly party political ones. On the political points, it is worth remembering…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19Mr Speaker, I share your gratitude to the House of Commons staff for all their efforts and hard work to allow us to meet today in the way that we are. Before I begin my statement,…06 Jan 2021