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HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) Regulations 2020My Lords, these regulations were made on 3 July and came into effect the following day. On 16 July, my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care…29 Jul 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) Regulations 2020My Lords, I shall try to answer as many questions as I can. There are more than 30 of them, however, and I therefore hope that noble Lords will forgive me if I am brief. In answer…29 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseMy Lords, local authorities have had daily Covid-19 containment dashboards, which include 111, 119, online triage information and positive case information at UTLA and LSOA…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseMy Lords, it is a horrible truth that this disease hits hardest those with vulnerabilities. We have put in place a massive national programme to seek to protect the most…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseMy Lords, the obesity package that the Prime Minister announced today is one of the most ambitious, impactful and thoughtful of any Government in recent history. We will see how…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseMy Lords, it is put to me week in, week out that our relationship with directors of public health is in some way troubled. I reassure noble Lords that, every single day of the…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseThe noble Baroness is entirely right that track and trace on its own, with or without an app, is not enough to prevent a second wave. The only thing that can do that is the…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseThe noble Baroness is entirely right that these local outbreaks create invidious choices for local authorities, and the fine tuning of the boundaries is an important part of the…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseMy Lords, we use the tests we have got because they are the tests we have got. The way in which the disease manifests itself is not, I am afraid, something that I can negotiate…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseMy Lords, PHE publishes detailed statistics which give a gender breakdown. I recommend that the noble Lord has a look at the data. We express our sadness and regret for all those…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseMy Lords, the relationship with local authorities is extremely good, and I recommend that noble Lords do not believe everything they read on this subject. I completely commend…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseMy Lords, local trusts have been urged for many months now to undertake a profound risk assessment of workers, particularly BAME workers, in order to understand where infection…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseThe noble Lord is entirely right that Covid will lead to changes both subtle and profound in the way we do many things in our life, including patterns of commuting, and a renewed…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseI am not quite sure of the 190 million number. I think that is possibly an aggregate number of different vaccines. However, the practicalities of vaccine research are extremely…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseMy Lords, it is not the feeling in the Government that we should duck hard questions about performance, and we embrace those who ask difficult questions about how things have…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseMy Lords, the Nightingale hospitals have been a huge success in helping us to protect the NHS at a time when our needs were greatest. Since then, when prevalence rates were lower,…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseAnyone who has stood at the Dispatch Box to answer questions on PPE, as I have done, will feel extremely proud of the fact that we have managed to purchase a very large amount of…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseIt may appear from the outside that there are differences between the devolved nations and England, but my experience is that the four-nations approach to combating Covid has been…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseMy Lords, I pay tribute to colleagues at Southampton, who have been managing this exciting trial of saliva-based LAMP testing. The LAMP process is extremely exciting, as it…27 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseMy Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Thornton and Lady Brinton, for their detailed questions, which I will go through as speedily and thoroughly as I can. On…27 Jul 2020