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HANSARDNHS Funding Bill (Money Bill)The noble Baroness makes an important point and her work in this area is well known. It would be, however, slightly outside the remit of the Bill to go into that in great detail.…26 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusThe noble Lady is correct, inasmuch as we should be prepared for and able to envisage the possibility that the virus may spread through a large proportion of the country. The…26 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusThe noble Lord is right to emphasise this point. The clinical treatment of the virus is in part through the medicine itself. We have to be realistic about whether a medical…26 Feb 2020HANSARDNHS Funding Bill (Money Bill)My noble friend asks a question of such philosophical Whitehall subtlety that it is way beyond my pay grade to provide a clear, etymological answer to that. However, I reassure…26 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made today by my right honourable friend Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for the Department of Health…26 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusMy Lords, I too express my profound thanks to NHS staff and the ancillary workers who support our clinical efforts: the bus drivers, the hotel staff and the deep-cleaning staff,…26 Feb 2020HANSARDNHS Funding Bill (Money Bill)I am happy to accept that clarification. The noble Lord is exactly right: the numbers are from NHS England and they apply in that way. To go back to Swiss cheese, the Bill is an…26 Feb 2020HANSARDNHS Funding Bill (Money Bill)It is the convention in the Treasury to express spending commitments in cash terms. That is the convention of government and how this Bill is expressed. It is not the commitment…26 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusThe noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, makes his point extremely well. I cannot believe that there is anyone in this House who does not have a relative, friend or loved one who is…26 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusI reassure the House that there is an enormously energetic effort being put into testing kits. The testing arrangements to date have worked well. There is a 24 to 48-hour…26 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusMy noble friend is quite right that the quarantine arrangements at Arrowe Park have worked extremely well. This has meant that Britain has been one of the more advanced countries…26 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusThe noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, has put it very well. Testing is absolutely critical to the correct treatment of this virus. There is a race on to find cheap, easily applied and…26 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusThe noble Baroness asks a detailed question on an important part of our response. British scientists have done an enormous amount to investigate an antidote to the virus; £20…26 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusMy noble friend asks a characteristically detailed question. There has been a huge hunger on the part of schools over the last few days for more accurate information about how to…26 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusThe noble Lord asks a perfectly fair question but I am not a qualified virologist. Certainly, I do not know the answer to that and I am not sure that even the virologists are…26 Feb 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusThe noble Lord, Lord Patel, has expressed it all very well and with infinitely more authority and knowledge than I could have done. He has described very well the dilemma facing…26 Feb 2020HANSARDNHS Funding Bill (Money Bill)My Lords, I join those who have paid tribute to the work of my noble friend Lady Blackwood, my predecessor at the Dispatch Box, who made an invaluable contribution to the…26 Feb 2020HANSARDNHS Funding Bill (Money Bill)The noble Lord asks a very good question. The answer is not in my mega briefing pack, but I will be very glad to get back to him if I find an answer. The noble Lords, Lord Hunt…26 Feb 2020HANSARDNHS Funding Bill (Money Bill)My Lords, the NHS is the top priority of the British people and this Government. The NHS itself has a long-term plan to transform services in this country and to ensure that it…26 Feb 2020HANSARDNHS Funding Bill (Money Bill)That the Bill be now read a second time.26 Feb 2020