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HANSARD Covid-19 VaccineRight—bless you! It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Herefordshire on securing this debate—and on such a…10 Nov 2020HANSARDDraft Reciprocal and Cross-Border Healthcare (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Reciprocal and Cross-Border Healthcare (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020. It is a pleasure to see you in the…04 Nov 2020HANSARDDraft Reciprocal and Cross-Border Healthcare (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020There was quite a lot there, and I will try to canter through what I can. As the hon. Lady knows, my door is always open. The majority of what she alluded to is the subject of…04 Nov 2020HANSARDHuman Medicines (Coronavirus and Influenza) (Amendment) Regulations 2020The primary objective of our policy is to support the expansion of the annual seasonal flu vaccination campaign and to support the successful roll-out of a safe and effective…16 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingWe are better together. It is as simple as that. It is about a national programme. Let us imagine that the national programme is the spine and the local authorities are the ribs…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingI thank my hon. Friend for making that point and highlighting that 17 million individuals have downloaded the app. I am sure many in this House are using it frequently, because…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingI believe that the Minister for Universities answered an urgent question in this House last week, and I am sure that if the hon. Gentleman refers the challenges he has on the…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingNo. I am just coming to a conclusion, and I did give way to the hon. Gentleman. In a few short months, we have made huge strides forward to tackle this deadly virus. It has been a…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingI thank my hon. Friend. Those local volunteers were in some cases employed in other jobs and have returned to those jobs, but where they have indicated they are available,…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingI have already given way to the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts), so I will give way to the hon. Member for Reading East (Matt Rodda).14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingI thank the hon. Lady for her question, and I will be coming on to access. As she rightly points out, it is hugely important that local and national systems are in lockstep so we…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingI beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “when” to end and insert “working in conjunction with NHS Test and Trace; welcomes the huge expansion of testing to a capacity of…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingAs the hon. Gentleman can imagine, in the current circumstances the Department has a vast amount of correspondence. I will chase his inquiry personally when I return. As I said at…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingThe hon. Gentleman is correct to say we have provided £8 per head, giving Liverpool some £14 million to assist with its local public health attack on the virus and to help drive…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLocal Contact TracingI will push on a little and then I will give way to my hon. Friend. Today’s motion talks about local contact tracing, which has been rolled out since August and is something that…14 Oct 2020HANSARDLong CovidI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question, and I will read the document that he mentions with interest. It is a new disease on which we are still gathering evidence and…06 Oct 2020HANSARDBreast ScreeningI thank the hon. Lady for her question. Cancer nurse specialists are a particular interest of mine, and the long-term plan identifies that everybody deserves to have personalised…06 Oct 2020HANSARDLong CovidI am sure that the right hon. Gentleman would welcome yesterday’s announcement that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the Scottish Intercollegiate…06 Oct 2020HANSARDBreast ScreeningWomen at greatest risk of breast cancer continue to be prioritised for screening. The NHS has worked hard and has significantly reduced the backlog of delayed breast screening…06 Oct 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull) Regulations 2020I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020, No. 988). It is…05 Oct 2020