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HANSARDEngagementsIf the hon. Gentleman wants to keep this country in the EU, which I think is the gist of what he was saying, he will be sorely disappointed and so will the Labour party.02 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes, indeed. My hon. Friend reminds me that it is Small Business Saturday this Saturday. Everybody should be shopping local. I can also tell him that the Treasury is considering…02 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI beg to move, That the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I., 2020, No. 1374), dated 30 November 2020, a copy of which was…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthNo, I am coming to the end. In total, our vaccines taskforce has secured more than 350 million doses—more than enough for everyone in the UK, the Crown dependencies and our…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI just want to make an important point to my right hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) and to all Members who are rightly concerned about the position of…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthIndeed, I can certainly give my right hon. Friend that assurance: we will look in as much granular detail as we can at the incidence throughout the country. These points have been…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI want to make a little bit of progress, because I want to say something now about our hospitality sector, which I know the House will want to hear. We all accept that the burden…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI love Slough, but I understand what the hon. Gentleman is saying. I appreciate people’s feelings of injustice, and people do feel it. There is no question but that people feel…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthAh!01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthIndeed, and I will come in just a moment to what more we hope to do for pubs, restaurants and everybody in the hospitality sector, whose anguish and difficulties everybody in this…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthYes, indeed. This is a point that many of my hon. and right hon. Friends have made to me and to the Government with great force and eloquence over the past few days. We want to be…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthWe are rolling out lateral flow testing across the country and it is open to people to get a lateral flow test, but in general the testing system is available at the moment for…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI want to begin by telling the House that I was hugely encouraged by a visit I paid only yesterday to a vaccine plant in north Wales, where I saw for myself the vials of one of…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthMy right hon. Friend is quite right to raise the position of Tunbridge Wells, and I know that the feelings of the people of Tunbridge Wells are shared by many people across the…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI am going to give way one last time, to the right hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Ed Davey).01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI normally find myself in agreement with my right hon. Friend, but I must say that I do not think she is right in this instance. If we look at what the British people have…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthPerhaps the hon. Gentleman would like to tell us.01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI hope that the hon. Gentleman will really think carefully about what he has just said. We are trying to look after pubs, restaurants and businesses across this entire country,…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthThe right hon. Gentleman is, of course, completely right. Containment is the objective of the tiering scheme that the Government are announcing, and I hope the Opposition will…01 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateIt is great to see you.26 Nov 2020