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HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is not right, because there are many reasons why NHS staff are sadly absent, but an inability to get testing kits is not one of them. They have…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWe will do so whenever it is safe, but as my hon. Friend knows, the measures will expire in any event on 26 January.05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe hon. Lady really must not misrepresent what I said. I began by saying that I shared the frustrations of people up and down the country who had been unable to get the tests…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 UpdateI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, but the decision is up to the UK Health Security Agency.05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThat sums up all people need to know about the Labour party. It instinctively reaches for measures to lock down the UK economy and do huge damage. We are taking a balanced and…05 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI have a couple of points—I do not think the hon. Gentleman knows much about Disraeli, by the way. The Mayor of Greater Manchester actually just said that the Government are…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 2022HANSARDEngagementsYes. 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 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 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 2022HANSARDEngagementsMay I start by wishing you, Mr Speaker, and all Members a happy new year? Thanks to the heroic efforts of our vaccination programme and people coming forward up and down the…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 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 2022HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI share what the hon. Lady said about the amazing work that is being done by teachers and schools up and down the country. I have been to many of them and they have done…05 Jan 2022HANSARDEngagementsThat is one of the nicest things somebody has said to me from the Opposition Benches for a long time. I do want to thank and congratulate everybody in the hon. Lady’s constituency…15 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Lady and, no, we do recognise the importance of putting the bereaved, such as the bereaved of Hillsborough, at the heart of investigations. In certain…15 Dec 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am afraid my hon. Friend is absolutely right in what he says. He is right to stress the particular urgency of the situation, and he is right in what he says about hybrid warfare…15 Dec 2021