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HANSARDEngagementsThe whole House is talking about the result of a heavily contested election—and indeed it is a year ago to the day, Mr Speaker, that you were elected Speaker. May I, on behalf of…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthThe hon. Gentleman is exactly right, and has encapsulated the argument that we make. My right hon. Friend the Health Secretary and I have talked repeatedly to Simon Stevens of the…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthI beg to move, That the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 (S.I., 2020, No. 1200), dated 3 November 2020, a copy of which was laid…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe only comment I would make on all that is that I was genuinely amazed that the leader of the Unite union should make a remark of the kind that he did, and that the Labour party…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthThe whole House will share my sorrow and regret at the necessity of these measures, which I know is a perspective shared by my right hon. Friend—and I am happy to give way to him.04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthMy right hon. Friend makes a very important point. He is expressing a point of view that is shared by many people, but, alas, I believe that he is wrong. The facts do not support…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthIt is absolutely right for hon. Members to consult relevant documents that may contain information to the advantage and betterment of the House.04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthI can assure my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison) that his future is rosy. It is right for Members on all sides of this House to have the doubts…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthI know the hon. Gentleman speaks for many people in this House in raising that concern, and I feel it very deeply. It is an awful thing to restrict people’s ability to worship in…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend. He is absolutely right. I can tell him that the pilot is planned to last for approximately two weeks and we will keep the House updated on the results as…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsIn answer to the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s opening question, of course we do not comment, as a UK Government, on the democratic processes of our friends and allies, and I…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsWith the greatest respect to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, who has stood up and said that I will brag about NHS Test and Trace and its achievement of a target of capacity…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsNew guidance on care homes and visiting relatives safely—because the point the right hon. and learned Gentleman makes is incredibly important —is going to be announced today to…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for campaigning for places of worship in the way that he does, and I am so deeply sorry that these restrictions have to be put in place right now. We will…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe UK Internal Market Bill, which has cross-party support, is a vital part of the armature—the skeletal structure—of the whole UK economy as we leave the European Union, and it…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Department for Transport is already engaged on that matter, and I am sure it would be happy to meet him and representatives from the iPort…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Gentleman is entirely right, in the sense that, although the absolute numbers have not gone up in the way we feared, we are unquestionably seeing repeat victimisation in…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend. He is completely right about the paramount importance of keeping our schools open. Out of this crisis has come at least one potentially innovative…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI listen to a huge range of scientific advice, and indeed there are eminent scientists and epidemiologists who say that we should not do any kind of lockdowns or measures like…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend, and I congratulate her on her campaign for the people of Dover. I can tell her that, thanks to her lobbying, Highways England is now developing plans to…04 Nov 2020