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HANSARDHEALTH PROTECTION (CORONAVIRUS, RESTRICTIONS) (SELF-ISOLATION) (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS 2020
HEALTH PROTECTION (CORONAVIRUS, RESTRICTIONS) (NORTH OF ENGLAND, NORTH EAST AND NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND AND OBLIGATIONS OF UNDERTAKINGS (ENGLAND) ETC.) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2020I can, but I have only five minutes left.19 Oct 2020HANSARDHEALTH PROTECTION (CORONAVIRUS, RESTRICTIONS) (SELF-ISOLATION) (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS 2020
HEALTH PROTECTION (CORONAVIRUS, RESTRICTIONS) (NORTH OF ENGLAND, NORTH EAST AND NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND AND OBLIGATIONS OF UNDERTAKINGS (ENGLAND) ETC.) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2020We have been doing Test and Trace for some months now, and over a period of time, large numbers of people have been contacted through the system about the need to self-isolate. I…19 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthI am just wrapping up, and I have taken many interventions. I am very sorry, but I am not going to take a further intervention at this point, as there are Members waiting to…07 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthI thank colleagues for the contributions that have been made today, which I have listened to very carefully. There have been some extremely heartfelt speeches on all sides of the…07 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthLet me just come to Bolton. I was saying that we had consulted local leaders in Bolton and we used the emergency procedure to make the present set of regulations as soon as we…07 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthI beg to move, That the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North of England and North East and North West of England etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I., 2020,…07 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthI thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention. I will come on to the impact and detail of the rationale for the interventions.07 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthThe hon. Lady makes an important point about the impact of restrictions on people’s livelihoods as well as their lives. However, she is asking me to stray beyond my brief as a…07 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthI will make a little more progress and then I will take further interventions. I will now run through each set of regulations that was amended. The first was the Health Protection…07 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthI thank my hon. Friend for his comment. We are trying to get the balance right between wanting to target restrictions and not impose them on areas where they might not be needed,…07 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthMy hon. Friend makes a really important point. In making these decisions, we look at multiple factors. We look at the incidence rate per 100,000, for instance. We look at the…07 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthMy hon. Friend invites me to stray somewhat from the subject of this SI and the updates to the regulations, but clearly from what he said, he is well aware of all the work that is…07 Oct 2020HANSARD Public HealthAgain, my hon. Friend is asking me to stray beyond the scope of the SI, but what I will say is that, in the decisions that are made about interventions and policies more…07 Oct 2020HANSARDNHS Test and TraceThe context is the huge increase in the testing capacity of our system that we have already seen, rising from about 2,000 tests a day back in March to well over 200,000 a day now…06 Oct 2020HANSARDNHS Test and TraceNHS Test and Trace was launched in May. Four months later, more than 150,000 people who have tested positive for covid-19 have been contacted, and 450,000 of their contacts have…06 Oct 2020HANSARDNHS Test and TraceI thank the hon. Member for her question and for the work that she does with the APPG, which I joined recently for a very valuable conversation. Supporting care homes through the…06 Oct 2020HANSARDNHS Test and TraceI thank the hon. Member for her question. I am sure she will know that local authorities received £400 million to support them with local outbreak management. It is really…06 Oct 2020HANSARDNHS Test and TraceThere was quite a lot in that question. One thing I will say on schools is that enabling our children to continue to go to school is very much part of the whole strategy that we…06 Oct 2020HANSARDNHS Test and TraceWell, it is very good to hear of the set-up in York that the hon. Member describes. What I can do is take that away and follow it up to ensure that there is joint working, which…06 Oct 2020HANSARDNHS Test and TraceIt may be helpful to say that, since the NHS Test and Trace system started, it has contacted 78.5% of those who have tested positive, and then 77% of their contacts have been…06 Oct 2020