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HANSARDCovid-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 UpdateWe will continue to keep isolation timings under review. We do not want to release people back in to society or to their workplace so soon that they just infect all their…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI repeat my expression of sympathy for all those who need to visit people in care homes and for the loved ones in care homes who are desperate to be visited. As I said, we have in…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe plan is the one that we have in place. It is to get on with plan B. As my hon. Friend knows, there will be a review of it—indeed, the plan B measures expire on 26 January. By…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy right hon. Friend makes an important point and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation continues to keep fourth jabs under continuous review.05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWe are doing everything we can to ensure flexibility in the NHS so that staff can move more easily, by electronic passes and so on, from one place to another. We are also getting…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThat is rubbish.05 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the right hon. Gentleman. I can tell him that we are addressing the issue of fuel. We should not forget that the cap is still in place, and all the mitigations that I have…05 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsYes. I thank my hon. Friend, and he is completely right: we cannot build new homes without putting in the infrastructure to go with it. That is why we have a colossal programme of…05 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsOver 10 million people have been automatically enrolled into workplace pensions already: that has put another £28.4 billion into pensions, so it is a great success. I am sure that…05 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsOf course, as the hon. Gentleman knows, one of the first things we did when covid struck was make sure that statutory sick pay was payable from day one, so it is up to 75% more…05 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Lady obviously did not listen to my previous answer. Let me remind her that the warm home discount already supports 2.2 million people to the tune of £140 a week.…05 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsOf course, I said no such thing, because inflation is always something that we have to be careful about. We are making sure that we protect the people of this country throughout…05 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsIt is not just Labour’s record in London or in Wales: every Labour Government in history since the second world war has left office with unemployment higher than when they came…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 UpdateWe took every possible step to step up our supply of tests. We tripled the supplies, and deliveries went up to 900,000 a day. To listen to Labour Members, Mr Speaker, you would…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe UK Government have supported Wales, and the UK as a whole, throughout the pandemic to the tune of billions and billions of pounds. We supply the vaccines, we supply the…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy right hon. Friend is quite right, and that is why we are enlisting the help of community leaders up and down the country—anybody who speaks with authority in communities—to get…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWhat we are doing is investing hundreds of millions to make sure that we have a dynamic vaccine industry. Clearly the Government need to work hand in glove with the private…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank my hon. Friend for all the support that she gives to hospitals in the Greater Manchester area, which I know well, in which she knows we are investing hugely. I thank them…05 Jan 2022