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HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank my right hon. Friend for what she has just said. Her point about birth partners being able to attend is unbelievably important. I am glad that we were able to address it…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe hon. Lady makes an incredibly important point and I am grateful to her. There is a job of work for all of us to do in reaching out to certain groups. At the moment, it is not…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy right hon. Friend has a great deal of expertise in this matter. I thank all frontline staff and others in the NHS for what they have been doing. He is right in what he says…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI repeat the points that I made earlier to the right hon. Gentleman. The reason why we are in the state we are in is because of the immense co-operation there has been across the…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI have not sat here quite long enough—nothing like it, in my view—but, yes, my right hon. Friend is right about schools. It is very important to keep them going. I think masks…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThat is a fact. Is the hon. Lady going to deny it? It is true.19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWe are certainly reviewing the testing arrangements for travel and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care will make a statement on that in the next…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI would be happy to share the scientific advice on which we have taken the decision, of course. The right hon. and learned Gentleman can see it—it is there for everybody to…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI notice that the hon. Gentleman is at variance with his Front Bench on that point, and not for the first time. I do not think he is right. I think that we should trust in the…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWithin hours of learning from scientists in South Africa about the emergence of a new covid variant last November, this Government acted to introduce balanced and proportionate…19 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWith permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on our progress against omicron and the review of our plan B measures. [ Interruption. ]19 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI can assure my hon. Friend that we are well aware of the risks associated with the smart motorway scheme. I know that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport is…19 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe Conservative approach to the Union is one that I think is right for our country. We want to keep it together. Conservatives in Scotland do an excellent job, which is why their…19 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsNo, I really do not agree with the hon. Lady, and I do not think that she can have been following anything that has been said this afternoon. We have unemployment falling to…19 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful to my hon. Friend. I am advised that the amendment in question will indeed be withdrawn.19 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsNo.19 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, I think that was a question for you rather than me. Look, I have made my point. I think that the British public have responded to what the Government have had to say…19 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI will certainly do what I can to support it, although of course, as my hon. Friend knows, such memorials are a matter for local authorities. What the House and the Government can…19 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI must say to my right hon. Friend that I do not know what he is talking about. I do not know what quotation he is alluding to. What I can tell him, as I have told the House…19 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsThank you, Mr Speaker. I want to repeat that I understand the feelings that the hon. Gentleman has relayed to me, as I said last week. I sympathise very deeply with the feelings…19 Jan 2022