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HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanOf course not, and I feel very much for those who are in a difficult position. We have spent £13.5 billion supporting the self-employed so far—I think possibly more by now.…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanMy hon. Friend will have seen or heard several times the criteria that we are using to decide which tiers people should go into. The inverse is obviously true and everybody now…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanI certainly will make sure that the hon. Member’s delegation is properly received and that we try to come up with a solution.23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanI cannot give the hon. Member a breakdown of the figures now, but what I can certainly tell her is that, actually, NHS Test and Trace has been working hand in glove with local…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanYes, absolutely, and I thank Dr Andrew Wilson and the Cheshire clinical commissioning group, and Dr Alistair Adey from the Tarporley health centre, for everything they have done.…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanI refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave just now.23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanYes, Madam Deputy Speaker.23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is a balanced approach that we will have to continue to follow through to the spring.23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanI thank local government for everything it is doing. I think that it is doing an amazing job in incredibly difficult circumstances. The hon. Gentleman can be sure that it will be…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanI thank my hon. Friend and can confirm that we will be taking decisions about tiering on the basis of the data and a commonsensical division of the areas concerned.23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to pay tribute to the work of those remarkable staff for what they did to allow Remembrance Sunday commemorations to go ahead and allow people…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanWhat I can certainly say is that it does not help to read about confidential discussions in the papers. I must say that a lot of the stuff I have read seems to be very wide of the…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanI do indeed congratulate all the arts venues in Deal that have pulled together in the way that my hon. Friend describes. Let us hope that we can get them all fully open as soon as…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanMy hon. Friend is right to say that that has been a problem; but in fact, more people have been self-isolating than is sometimes supposed or alleged, and they have done a great…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanMy hon. Friend makes a passionate plea for breweries, cider producers and others. I know that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor will be listening keenly to all of that,…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanThe hon. Lady is entirely right about the vaccine—it is wonderful news, but it is premature to say that it constitutes, on its own, an exit strategy. That is why I have insisted…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanI very much hope that we will have a united approach to Christmas. I think that is what the people of this country want. I repeat that there is much more that unites us than…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanThat is certainly one of the use cases that we are considering. Rolling that out across the whole country in time for Christmas might be difficult, but the hon. Lady will have…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanIndeed, and I have been with my right hon. Friend to many a fantastic hospitality venue in Bexley. I seem to remember going with him to one pub where he christened a blue drink:…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanMy hon. Friend is so right in the way he champions Stoke and the community spirit of the people of Stoke. I cannot say which tier, alas, they will go into. It will depend on all…23 Nov 2020