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HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanThe advantage of mass testing is that it is instant. Contact tracing by any system takes 24 hours or so to get the result to people. Mass testing can tell people whether they are…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanI do not know who the right hon. Gentleman means in his attack on those who do not encourage investment in science. He certainly cannot mean this Government, because we put…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanThe local authorities have been given about £4.6 billion so far to support them through the pandemic and to help them to support hard-hit businesses in their areas, and that is on…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanI am grateful to my right hon. Friend and for the wisdom of his constituent, but I respectfully disagree. The people of this country have been obeying the rules to an astonishing…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanWe will study the judgment and take appropriate action to protect workers.23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanIndeed; I would be delighted to meet my right hon. Friend and my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr Baker), who have written an excellent letter to me. I hope that my right…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanI will look into the matter that the hon. Lady raises, and I will get back to her as soon as I can.23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanMy hon. Friend will have to wait until the announcements by the Health Secretary on Thursday about exactly who goes into which tier. As my hon. Friend knows, the point about…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanThe hon. Lady makes an important point, and it is appalling that pubs, or any businesses, have had to face the restrictions that they have. Nobody has wanted to do this. The…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanMy hon. Friend is totally right to support bingo halls and bowling alleys. They will be open, as he knows, in tiers 1 and 2. Alas, we cannot yet do it in tier 3, but, as I have…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 PlanI very much sympathise with the hon. Lady’s constituents in Lancaster and Wyre, and I thank them for the efforts that they have gone to in helping to bring the virus down in their…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanYes, indeed. I can tell my hon. Friend that local restrictions support grants are still available—£3,000 for every 28 days that a business is forced to close.23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanIf the hon. Gentleman looks at the guidance on travel in tiers 2 and 3, he will see that it sets out clearly that in tier 2 people should reduce the number of journeys that they…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 PlanYes. The criteria are as I have set out a couple of times now. The areas will be reviewed every 14 days.23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanFor the record, Madam Deputy Speaker, the problem does not appear to be at our end. I hope that viewers will not think I am in any way trying to avoid scrutiny by hon. Members. I…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanMy hon. Friend is absolutely right about the vital importance of sport. I can tell him that even in my current confinement, I am taking whatever exercise I can—mainly on a…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanThis is a matter for the Welsh Labour Government in Wales to deal with, but I understand the fundamental inability of the Welsh Labour Government to deal with so many matters that…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanMy hon. Friend completely sums up the strategy that we need now, just as we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Now is the moment when it is vital that we concentrate on…23 Nov 2020