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HANSARD Support for Offenders’ FamiliesAdjournment debates are great opportunities to raise issues brought up by constituents, and it gives me much pleasure this evening to do precisely that. I am grateful to the…07 Dec 2021HANSARD Support for Offenders’ FamiliesThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and he speaks from a great deal of experience. Deuteronomy is bang on the money. These are innocents. They need to be dealt with as…07 Dec 2021HANSARD Support for Offenders’ FamiliesYes, I do agree. I am pleased that the hon. Lady has raised her constituency case, because her constituents are not alone, with 850 such arrests made every month. That is just…07 Dec 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateVaccines are clearly our way out of this, but does the Secretary of State agree that treatments are also important, and they have come on in leaps and bounds? Sotrovimab reduces…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Adult Social CareI congratulate the Minister on getting a grip on an issue that consecutive Governments have simply ignored since the 1940s, but does she accept that there is a certain irony in…01 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic HealthHow on earth does the hon. Lady think that we can mandate or suggest that people work from home but then expect students to tip up? University is about being taught, and being…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI record my interest as a practising doctor. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Bob Seely) that there appears to be a problem with the availability of slots…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthYes, I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. The point about that is of course that the national health service at the moment is running very fast to catch up because for the past…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthIf my hon. Friend recalls, the reason for lockdown was to reduce a potential impact on the national health service. Does he agree with me and everyone who has opined on the…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthCan the shadow Minister cast his mind back to the debates we had on smoking in public places? If he is suggesting properly engineered extraction ventilation, we dismissed that…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthThe Minister is really being most generous and I thank her very much indeed. Our right hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper) is absolutely right and I fear that,…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthWill the Minister give way?30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic Healthrose —30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthThe Minister mentioned hand hygiene. Is she aware of a study published in The BMJ on 20 November that showed that hand hygiene was as effective as mask wearing? Does she agree…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI am listening carefully to what the hon. Member has to say. Does she agree that the group in society that has really borne the brunt in the past 18 months is young people? They…30 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic HealthI was talking about university students.30 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierI declare my interest as an active reservist and a proud father of two serving officers. For 20 years, I have been fighting what has at times seemed like a rearguard action to…25 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsQ9. Net zero, levelling up and building back better cannot happen without a massive increase in the supply of critical tech minerals such as silicon, copper and lithium, but…24 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillNew clause 29(2)(d) has merits, as I am sure the Minister will accept, in that we need to incentivise people to join health and care, and, crucially, to be retained with the…23 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillThe hon. Member is being generous in giving way. Would he avoid the temptation to suggest that productivity is in some way simply a demand for hard-pressed people in health and…23 Nov 2021