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HANSARD Public Health: Coronavirus RegulationsI believe that the Government should have brought all these measures to Parliament from the beginning, and it should not have taken a revolt on the Tory Back Benches for us to…13 Oct 2020HANSARD Public Health: Coronavirus RegulationsGiven that the Liverpool city region, which includes my constituency of Wallasey, was placed in tier 3 yesterday, could the Secretary of State outline whether there are plans to…13 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthDoes the Minister agree that as the virus is coming roaring back, particularly in areas such as my constituency, now is the wrong time to be getting rid of the furlough, and that…07 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthWe all want to fight to get the virus down and save lives, but to do so we must have coherent and transparent rules from the Government that are simple and that everyone can…07 Oct 2020HANSARDAreas with Additional Public Health Restrictions: Economic SupportI welcome the Minister’s agreeing with my right hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley (Sir George Howarth) to meet local MPs, local leaders and the Mayor to talk about what is…06 Oct 2020HANSARD Covid-19If the right hon. Member considers the efficacy of parliamentary scrutiny, has he looked at what the New Zealand Parliament has done? It has set up a special Select Committee, led…28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19I was trying to say that complacency at the beginning caused many more deaths; it caused us to have a higher death rate and a bigger economic hit than other countries. From the…28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for New Forest West (Sir Desmond Swayne). I agreed with precisely zero of what he had to say, but this is not the first time that…28 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy right hon. Friend is making an extremely good speech. Would he perhaps tell the House who on earth might have signed this terrible deal with so many ambiguities less than nine…14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillI never thought I would ever see a piece of legislation this objectionable put before the House. It is a gigantic act of self-harm masquerading as a negotiating strategy in the…14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillThe right hon. Gentleman is making points that go to the heart of the Bill, and I share his worries about them. Does he share my worries that the Bill also attempts to curtail…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateIn Wirral, there has been a sudden, sharp rise in covid-19 infections, with yesterday’s figures standing at 33 infections per 100,000. What extra assistance can the Secretary of…08 Sept 2020HANSARD Coronavirus ResponseEarlier this month, Baroness Harding told a House of Lords Select Committee that people were unwilling to self-isolate because of financial pressures. We also now learn that Test…20 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateIf test and trace is to work effectively and people take the advice they are given via that service, some of them will find it difficult, because they will be earning no money;…14 Jul 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: Job-Support SchemesIt is not that we wish the Minister to support people in the way that they want. He has to recognise that there are 1 million people who have been given no support at all; we want…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: Job-Support SchemesThe coronavirus pandemic has ushered in an economic emergency of gargantuan proportions. The estimates show that £42 billion will be spent on the coronavirus job retention scheme…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: Job-Support SchemesI absolutely agree. This crisis has forced us to look at how our labour market works, and we need to come back to that very strongly indeed. Tomorrow, I want to hear that the…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: EmploymentWhat fiscal steps he is taking to tackle unemployment as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.07 Jul 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: Job-Support SchemesClearly somebody in the Conservative party has moved on, but when we look at the difference between 0.2% of national GDP and 40% of national GDP, we can see that a few lessons are…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: EmploymentThe aerospace sector has already said that 9,000 jobs will go in the UK. The north-west is going to be specifically badly affected if the Government just sit back and allow this…07 Jul 2020