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HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleThe review will consider economic and, particularly, clinical and scientific evidence. As I have said before, once the review has reported and the Prime Minister has had an…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleMy hon. Friend, a distinguished former Children’s Minister, makes a very good point and that is exactly the sort of thing I will pass on to ensure that the review team considers…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleAs the hon. Gentleman will have heard the Chancellor say on many occasions, we continue to keep all measures to support individuals and businesses under constant review, and I…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleMy hon. Friend is a great champion of businesses not only in his constituency but across his great city. I hear exactly what he says, and we have been clear that once the review…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the different pieces of the jigsaw that we have in use at the moment, be it distance, face covering or a whole range of other measures. I can…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleThroughout this pandemic, we have had a very close working relationship between Edinburgh, Cardiff, London and Belfast, sharing information and having regular discussions between…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleMy hon. Friend emphasises what a number of right hon. and hon. Members have quite rightly said, not least my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleThe hon. Gentleman is quite right. A lot of the debate has focused on hospitality, pubs and restaurants, but he is absolutely right to talk about the impact on music venues,…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleBefore I answer, may I put on the record on behalf of myself and my hon. Friends our very best wishes to the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Amy Callaghan) for a swift and…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleMy hon. Friend is right to say that this is about conducting this review so that we have the best scientific and economic evidence, and so that we can make the right decision at…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleWhile I note the hon. Gentleman’s point about international comparisons, actually I believe that learning lessons from other countries is something that can be valuable and is…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that if and when it is safe to reduce social distancing measures, that is what we should do, but it is for the review to report and advise us,…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleI am grateful to the shadow Minister, as always, for his remarks and for, as ever, the constructive tone that he adopts on these occasions. I share his view that we do want to see…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I have huge respect for him and for his campaigning on this issue, particularly in the context of the extraordinary work he has done on…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleMy hon. Friend makes a very good point and, as ever, a gentle but clear plug for his constituency encouraging people, when it is safe to do so, to come and enjoy those businesses…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleI would caution the hon. Lady, on the basis of the SAGE advice, that in no region is the R rate above 1. Out of 10 models done recently one suggested that in two regions it might…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleI thank the hon. Lady, her party’s spokesperson on this issue. In the first week of its operation, having been stood up pretty much from scratch, this system has performed…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleI am always grateful for questions from my hon. and gallant Friend. The latest figures—as of last week—are that R is not near zero, but is between 0.7 and 0.9. That shows that the…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleMy hon. Friend is right. She, too, champions her wonderful constituency of Derbyshire Dales, which I have had the privilege of visiting in the past. She is right that it is…15 Jun 2020HANSARDSocial Distancing: 2 Metre RuleQuite rightly, right hon. and hon. Friends on the Conservative Benches, in their comments about relaxing the social distancing rules, were reflecting the fact that the science is…15 Jun 2020