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HANSARDEngagementsYes. I thank my hon. Friend, who is completely right. That is why this Government are taking the tough decision to invest in the long-term future of our energy supply, investing…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank my hon. Friend. Under the Inquiries Act 2005, as the House knows, it is up to the chair of the inquiry to begin framing the terms of reference herself.05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWe have accepted the advice of the JCVI on at-risk five to 11-year-olds, and we will be rolling it out later this month.05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWe are using them. It is also important that all manufacturers that want to supply lateral flow tests should pass the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s tests.…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am afraid the hon. Gentleman is talking total nonsense. There was no manufacturing capability at all for lateral flow tests in this country, but we now have the largest single…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, but the decision is up to the UK Health Security Agency.05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy hon. Friend has raised the issues of the immunosuppressed before, and I understand the points that he makes. We have contacted 1.3 million of them with a view to giving them…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateOften the problem in care homes is that someone may have had covid recently and therefore is not eligible for the booster, so people have to come round, but we are doing that as…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThere are no restrictions on them at the moment, and that is certainly the way we wish to keep it.05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy hon. Friend asks an extremely important question. I think the answer is that there is currently no evidence, but there is certainly evidence that the different levels of…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWe are actually seeing very encouraging signs of take-up in the health sector and in social care. That is a great and positive thing for individuals in both those professions.05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateAs I said in an earlier answer, we have made sure that sick pay for those who are isolating kicks in on day one. That is equivalent to a 75% increase, but what we are also…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank my hon. Friend for her question. I know United Lincolnshire Hospitals: I remember going there with my right hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock), the…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateIf my right hon. Friend looks at what we are doing, he will see that the measures we have in place expire on 26 January, as he knows. Whatever the situation may be then, we will…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am grateful, but I must say that throughout the pandemic the public have continually surprised on the upside with their determination to take this seriously. Rather than…05 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI find that criticism hard to take from the humble crofter, if I may say so—with whom, I stress, I normally have very good relations off the pitch. What we are doing is helping…05 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman, but that goes to show why it is so important to keep this country going and to keep people going to the dentist. One of the troubles we have had during…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateIt is very important that everybody should get the ambulance service that they need. That is why we are investing £55 million more and that is why there are 500 more people on the…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWhat we are doing is supporting hospitals in Greater Manchester and up and down the country with record investment and, as I said in an earlier answer, by making sure that we…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI can give my right hon. Friend a categorical assurance that masks in schools will last not a day longer than we need them.05 Jan 2022