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HANSARDEngagementsObviously, if carers have to self-isolate because they suspect they have the disease and cannot get a test, their work is lost for a week and those who need care and support do…25 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the Prime Minister for his very kind remarks. I believe in a decent, socially just society. He was talking as though this was a sort of obituary—just to let him know: my…25 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsThank you very much, Mr Speaker, for making the best arrangements possible today to ensure not only that as many Members as possible can ask questions, but that the Government are…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. A very clear request was made by my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor that we get embargoed copies an hour or half an…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Following what the SNP spokesman just said, may we ask you, through your good offices, to arrange for the leaders of all the parties to…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageAnd good luck to the city of Southend.25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageAnd good biscuits.25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageCould the Minister tell us how quickly this will be done, because the levels of stress out there among the self-employed are absolutely huge?25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageI thank my right hon. Friend for her intervention and for what she is doing about that. There are people with no recourse to public funds all over the country. Typically, they are…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageExactly. How on earth can she go around looking at places if she is not allowed out of the house? It is absurd. Labour’s demands are very clear: ban evictions for six months and…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageMy hon. Friend understands the issue and represents his constituency extremely well. I know that a lot of his constituents are in that situation. We have to have better regulation…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageIt is absolutely disgraceful and totally unnecessary. If someone feels they are at risk, the advice from the Department of Health is that they should self-isolate—and eventually…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageMy hon. Friend anticipates the point I was about to make. We have all seen the images this morning of construction workers packed on to the London tube and other trains all around…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageIf employers are putting us all at risk by forcing people to work in a non-essential industry or company or non-essential work, they should be sanctioned, and those sanctions…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageMy hon. Friend makes a very strong point. Indeed, that has been raised by my right hon. Friend the shadow Home Secretary and others on many occasions. It is absurd that we have…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageIt was not so long ago that I was making lengthy speeches about those subjects, and I am quite prepared to hand a copy of our manifesto over to the Government. They are already…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageMy hon. Friend is right. There are lots of enthusiastic volunteers, which is great, but the initiatives need co-ordination and protection. We are dealing with assisting vulnerable…25 Mar 2020HANSARDFinancial and Social Emergency Support PackageI beg to move, That this House has considered the emergency financial and social package needed to support people, families and business through the covid-19 outbreak. Thank you,…25 Mar 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseIt already has!25 Mar 2020HANSARDEngagementsAll I can say to the Prime Minister is: please make sure you make yourself available for scrutiny by this House and everybody else, because we represent people who are desperately…25 Mar 2020