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HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateIndeed, that is why we put another £12 billion into supporting our mental healthcare. The general point that my right hon. Friend makes is very important. That is one of the…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am grateful to the hon. Lady. We are in constant contact with government—regional, local and city—at all levels throughout this country to help it to protect and support our…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am grateful to the people of Warrington for everything they have done; I know that they have had a very tough time. It has been tough to control the disease there, as it has…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI must respectfully remind the right hon. Gentleman of what I have said repeatedly throughout this afternoon: the furlough scheme is UK-wide and it will continue to apply in…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe are rolling out testing of all NHS staff as fast as we possibly can, and we are all too aware of the risk of nosocomial infection of the kind that we saw last time. One of the…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am happy to provide all the scientific data on which these decisions have been made, but I think the House will appreciate that for any particular human activity, one can always…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy hon. Friend is entirely right to want to look at all the data and all the projections, and I am very happy that we have shared everything; everything that I have seen is…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe will continue to support all parts of the UK, as we have throughout this crisis.02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI cannot say often enough that this is a time-limited lockdown and it ends on 2 December unless this House decides to extend measures of one kind or another. Any further measures…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe wedding industry, in common with everything else, will we hope very much be able to start again on 2 December.02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI share my hon. Friend’s desire to protect the economy, and I believe fervently that we need to get as big and as fast a bounce-back as we possibly can, but I also think, alas,…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Lady asks what has changed in the past couple of weeks. I am afraid the facts have changed, and the number of people admitted to hospital, as I said, is up every day. We…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI think most fair-minded people would think that this Government have done everything they can to support people throughout this crisis. We are not only extending the furlough…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am deeply sorry to hear about that loss of life—the suicide of my hon. Friend’s constituent, Dr Jagdip Sidhu. All I can say is that we are doing everything we can to support NHS…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe are going back into measures across England that are necessary to drive the R down. They differ from the measures currently obtaining in Scotland, but in so far as people…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe answer is that we have a different package of support for different measures, and that is entirely what you would expect. There is now uniformity, and it is our view that…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI mentioned the support that we have been giving to mental health charities across the country. We will be doing much more over the winter to support the voluntary sector, which,…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI certainly will. It is in order to allow the economy to open up again in December that we are taking the steps we are now. I believe that this crisis must be met, as my hon.…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe are not bringing back shielding, as I mentioned earlier, although we do think that the elderly need to take special steps to protect themselves. Actually, the Swedish example…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am grateful to my hon. Friend, but I must repeat what I have said several times already this afternoon: the furlough scheme is a UK-wide scheme. If other parts of the UK decide…02 Nov 2020