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HANSARD Covid-19I just wonder whether one problem we have at the moment is that we do not have enough capacity in the whole of the NHS to take on covid in a long-term way, as the Secretary of…22 Oct 2020HANSARD Covid-19I will have to resign now!22 Oct 2020HANSARDAdditional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic SupportToday is the anniversary of the terrible events at Aberfan, and none of us will ever forget in Wales. I am enormously grateful to the Minister for providing £2.5 million for the…21 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 Economic Support PackageFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I hear what you say, but my understanding was that you did not have to notify Ministers. Ministers are, as it were, fair…14 Oct 2020HANSARDStorm DennisThat was useless yet again. I have been asking for the money for the Rhondda for months. The Prime Minister wrote to me in June saying that he recognised that Wales had been…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingMy constituents’ experience of the test, trace and isolate system run by the UK Government is that it has been a complete and utter fiasco at every single stage. On the tests,…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingMay I make a simple suggestion? It would be really helpful to the vast majority of people who are waiting for tests if there were a simple means of them being able to track where…14 Oct 2020HANSARDStorm DennisWhat additional funding the Government have provided to communities in Wales affected by Storm Dennis.14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingNo.14 Oct 2020HANSARDAreas with Additional Public Health Restrictions: Economic SupportThe Minister knows that the Rhondda has not just had to contend with coronavirus this year; we have had the worst flooding of any area in the whole of the UK—nearly a quarter of…06 Oct 2020HANSARDHigh Street Businesses: Covid-19Tomorrow.05 Oct 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is 232 days since Storm Dennis flooded many, many properties in Rhondda. A quarter of all such properties in the whole UK were in one constituency, Rhondda, and that is wholly…05 Oct 2020HANSARD Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions)I am very grateful for the correspondence that the Secretary of State and I have had on a specific issue relating to local restrictions in Wales—which have quite rightly been…30 Sept 2020HANSARD Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions)Can the hon. Gentleman tell us what this new procedure is?30 Sept 2020HANSARD Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions)I would like to point out to the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr Baker) that the app actually works better in Wales, because all the tests can be properly downloaded in Wales, unlike…30 Sept 2020HANSARD Professional and Amateur Sport: Government SupportI am all for common-sense measures to restrict the transmission of coronavirus in sporting activities, including among the young, but is the Minister as perplexed as I am by the…30 Sept 2020HANSARD Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions)But the Government decide.30 Sept 2020HANSARD Point of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Government is by consent in this country, and especially so when civil liberties have to be impinged upon, whether for good reasons or…30 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillOf course I agree with the right hon. Gentleman about the Bill. It is a nonsense and a rogues’ charter, as I said in a previous debate, but would he also encourage Members of the…29 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19Goodness—thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. What a delight it is to be called to speak so suddenly.28 Sept 2020