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HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that point. I am not sure that I want to put the Government’s chief economic adviser through the experience of the press briefings, but…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and we are making sure that people across the whole of the UK get the support that they need. I think that things have been tough in Northern…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateIn all intellectual humility, we will look at all the suggestions made by right hon. and hon. Members across the House. We will look at any exceptions that we can sensibly make,…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 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 UpdateAs I have said several times today, Scotland has, at the moment, a slightly different approach. It retains a tiered approach, but furlough remains a UK scheme and available across…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, indeed. My hon. Friend will have seen that there are specific exemptions for volunteers and people who are helping—for therapists and others. We continue to put many millions…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThese measures are time-limited—they elapse on 2 December—but I repeat that the objective is to get the infection rate to stop doubling and to start halving. To do that, we need…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am grateful to my hon. Friend, but I said in my statement earlier that Remembrance Sunday services can go ahead, provided they are socially distanced and outside. I think he is…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThat is the policy very accurately summed up, but for better elucidation and understanding of it, I urge people to get on to the website to see exactly what they need to do.02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThat is certainly the intention, and that is why we are massively ramping up the tests in the way that my hon. Friend describes.02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Member makes an excellent point. It is precisely to protect cancer services and to ensure that non-covid patients get access to the treatment they need that we have to…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateJust to repeat the point that I think I made to the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer), the R is above 1, but it is not much above 1—it is not…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateAs the chief medical officer said I think on Saturday night, there is “no right time” to close businesses, or to close pubs and restaurants. We do not—no Government—want to do…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateAgain, I must apologise to my hon. Friend for not being able to offer the House a huge list of exemptions to the rules that we are setting out, because once you unpick one thing,…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateFirst, again NHS Test and Trace—whatever the drawbacks, whatever the frustrations that people legitimately feel—will achieve its target of 500,000 capacity by the end of October.…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI can tell the hon. Lady that we are supporting the arts, as she knows, with a £1.57 billion package. They are vital for our country; they are massively important to the UK…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI sympathise very much with the sentiments the right hon. Gentleman expresses about the loss of freedom and people’s frustrations; I do understand that, but I must say that I…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am grateful to my hon. Friend for all his excellent suggestions. We are certainly happy to publish all the data. I tried to set out to the House earlier our plan for the way…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe answer is yes, because the furlough scheme is a UK-wide scheme and it applies across the whole of the UK. It is true that Scotland is currently taking a slightly different…02 Nov 2020