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HANSARDCovid-19: Vulnerable PopulationsI reassure the noble Lord that the Government are not obliging healthy over-70s to self-isolate. However, the guidance is clear: they are a vulnerable group and the disease…12 May 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020That the Virtual Proceedings do consider the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020. Relevant document: 13th Report from the…12 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Vulnerable PopulationsMy Lords, the advice from the Government is that the clinically extremely vulnerable should continue to be shielded until the end of June. That is under review at the moment. We…12 May 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020That the Virtual Proceedings do consider the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020. Relevant document: 11th Report from the Secondary…12 May 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020My Lords, I will outline what the regulations we are considering do, then set out the policies and processes underlying their development, their implementation and finally their…12 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Vulnerable PopulationsThe noble Baroness is right to raise concern for the homeless—surely one of the groups suffering the most in the current epidemic. We are putting in place facilities for testing,…12 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Vulnerable PopulationsThe noble Baroness, Lady Bull, asks a searching question. On whether the Mental Health Act easements of which she speaks have already been enacted, I will have to find out exactly…12 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Vulnerable PopulationsI share the noble Baroness’s celebration of Florence Nightingale Day, which is an important day for the nursing profession and for all of us. We have made huge progress on testing…12 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Vulnerable PopulationsMy Lords, a strange and peculiar feature of the epidemic has been that accident and emergency wards are, surprisingly, below normal capacity since people have sought to avoid them…12 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Vulnerable PopulationsMy Lords, social distancing and shielding measures are in place to protect vulnerable and clinically extremely vulnerable populations. Those identified as clinically extremely…12 May 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020My Lords, this has been an important debate about what many noble Lords have rightly called important regulations that affect everyone in this country. I thank very much all noble…12 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Vulnerable PopulationsThe advice given to local authorities is spelled out in guidelines. Those who are vulnerable are advised to avoid social contact. Where necessary, those whom they live with,…12 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Vulnerable PopulationsMy Lords, mental health advice is very clearly available, most of all from GOV.UK/coronavirus, where there is a huge amount of practical and pastoral advice, and access to…12 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Vulnerable PopulationsI reassure the House that deaths in care homes have always been part of the official figures. It is a very sad affair, and it shows how the disease attacks those who are most…12 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Government ResponseMy Lords, with leave I shall repeat the Answer given to an Urgent Question asked in the other place yesterday. In the repeat, I will use the most up-to-date figures, which have…06 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Government ResponseI welcome the noble Baroness’s questions on accountability. However, I remind her that not all Covid-related matters are covered by the department of health; Ministers have been…06 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Contact-tracing AppMy Lords, the anonymised data-sharing is protected by the security protocols that have been agreed as part of the app’s governance. That governance is overseen by the ethics…06 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Contact-tracing AppMy Lords, I am in touch with both the South Korean and Taiwanese Governments, and we are greatly inspired by the throughly professional way in which they have gone about epidemic…06 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Government ResponseI return to my comments to the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton. In the Lords at least, Ministers have been on the Front Bench answering questions on Covid every day since the Lords…06 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Contact-tracing AppMy noble friend Lord O’Shaughnessy is entirely right. We all wish to move as quickly as possible back to normal, but I am afraid that travel will be one of the aspects of our…06 May 2020