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HANSARD Teignmouth HospitalIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles, in a sense for the second time. In my first Committee post in the House, when I was first elected, I served under…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsI am grateful to my hon. Friend. I have set out in my answers that what I think is most important for this country is that we work together—the public, private and voluntary…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsWhat this Government have done, and did in the context of the issues under discussion in this specific question, is recognise the huge need for PPE during the pandemic last year…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsI am grateful to the hon. Lady. I have highlighted just how important I consider transparency to be. This is the second time in two weeks, rightly, that I have been answering at…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsI am grateful to my right hon. and gallant Friend for his question. He is absolutely right to highlight that our No. 1 priority, as I think the people of this country and Members…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsThe hon. Gentleman made two points. On the latter, the Government will always look very carefully at anything he suggests to them. On the former, very serious point, if he is able…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsMy hon. Friend is absolutely spot on. He is right to highlight the amazing effort by British business and by businesses that stepped up in this country’s hour of need to repurpose…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsI have been clear, both today and, indeed, when I came to the House two weeks ago, that the Government fully accept and respect the judgment of the court.09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who alludes to the fact that our constituents and the wider public want to see all of us in this House and in Government doing everything we can…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsI am grateful for the hon. Lady’s question. She is right to highlight the amazing work being done in the roll-out of the vaccine by our frontline health and social care workers,…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsI am grateful to my right hon. Friend, and I am happy to say he is absolutely right. He has a lot of experience in government and in this space. All those contracts and all…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsI have known the hon. Lady since I came to this House, so I will not take it personally if she suggests that, as I am not the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the import of…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for the point he makes on behalf of his constituents. The overwhelming priority was to ensure that we got the PPE in the quantities we needed to…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Government’s Publication of ContractsMy hon. Friend highlights the situation we faced at the time. He also, quite rightly, highlights the importance of transparency and complying with all transparency processes. The…09 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid Contracts: Judicial ReviewI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his initial analogy. He made a couple of points there. I believe—this is from memory, so forgive me if I am slightly out, and I will…24 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid Contracts: Judicial ReviewMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I believe that officials did do the right thing in prioritising getting the PPE that we needed for our frontline, and he is also right to…24 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid Contracts: Judicial ReviewAlthough I made the legal point about lack of standing, I hope that the hon. Lady heard me highlight and acknowledge the fact that she and two other hon. Members clearly have an…24 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid Contracts: Judicial ReviewTransparency is important. The Chair of the Public Accounts Committee and others have rightly made that point, but saving lives is important and, I would argue, in the height of…24 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid Contracts: Judicial ReviewWe have been clear, and as I highlighted earlier, the NAO has been exceptionally clear, that there are no suggestions of Ministers behaving inappropriately in any way in the…24 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid Contracts: Judicial ReviewI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. He will appreciate that some of the contracts that some colleagues have alluded to remain subject to separate litigation before the…24 Feb 2021