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HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for the tenacious and doughty way in which he is championing the NHS. I am delighted that Stockport NHS Foundation Trust has been allocated close to £31…29 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsI do not think it is the right thing to do to stand behind all the claims, but we certainly continue to liaise with the insurance industry to make sure, as far as is legally and…29 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsFirst, may I pass on my very deepest condolences to the widow in my hon Friend’s constituency? I, along with other Ministers, have the grim task of reading out the total death…29 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend. We are facing a challenge we have not faced for decades in recent memory, and it is a national effort and a team effort. The critical ingredient is that…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman and I congratulate him on his success in being elected leader of the Labour party. I will certainly pass on his best wishes to the…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsThank you, Mr Speaker. I have been asked to respond on behalf of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, and I am pleased to tell the House that he is making a good recovery and…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsMay I just say that I entirely agree with the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s broader point, which is that our key workers who are fighting for us and tending to the most…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt is important to pay tribute, because there are two elements to this: getting the capacity up, which is half of it, and we are making good progress—I hope that the right hon.…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt is certainly about capacity. I addressed that issue in my earlier answers and also explained how we will bridge the 100,000. It is also about demand. We need to encourage those…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsIn relation to all those frontline staff who have passed away battling coronavirus and who have worked so hard to protect other people who are suffering, may I first say that our…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman, although I do not accept his premise that we have been slow. We have been guided by the scientific advice, the chief scientific…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsFirst, I pay tribute with the right hon. Gentleman to the key workers who have served every one of our four nations. I will also say, in relation to Scotland, that we recognise…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the right hon. Gentleman but, as I made clear in my earlier answer, we want to make sure we provide support to those who need it most. I would respectfully suggest that a…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend for his question; I am pretty sure I got the gist, and he is right to refer to the support that banks need to be providing to customers. Thanks to the work…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis has been raised already in the House, and it is critically important. I totally agree with my hon. Friend on the imminent need for getting the PPE to the places that need it…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsI certainly agree with the hon. Lady about the challenge that we have across all the sectors she mentioned in making sure that we see them through this incredibly difficult…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend makes a really important point. We know that the coronavirus is significantly affecting the tourism industry. That point was made by the hon. Member for Manchester…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsWe have at every stage, from January, when the original crisis started to break out in China, right the way through to the moment several weeks ago when we announced our social…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady is absolutely right, and I pay tribute to the councils up and down the country who, whether it is through social care or the services that they need to provide to…22 Apr 2020HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend will know that under this Government the NHS will have record funding enshrined in law, the largest hospital building programme in a generation, 50,000 more nurses…22 Apr 2020