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HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews, for her questions. Perhaps I may tackle the specific question of airport testing, which has been raised a couple of times. The…04 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am grateful to my noble friend for his question and I echo his comments on Kate Bingham. However, my Lords, we are not post-vaccine; we are, at best, mid-vaccine. Vaccinating 20…04 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her insightful question about the obscure but vital question of data architecture. If there is going to be one powerful legacy of…04 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I have nothing but good news on both those important issues. The number of people who have mild or profound sickness, need hospitalisation or die after having the…04 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I am enormously grateful for the questions from both the noble Baronesses, Lady Thornton and Lady Brinton. I start by echoing both their tributes to those involved in…04 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his grim prognosis and I agree with his analysis. If there is one place in the world where a mutant variation is likely to happen, it will be…04 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy noble friend is entirely right to raise the issue of regional variation. It had been our profound hope to be able to adjust and to focus lockdown arrangements on geographical…04 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I am not an epidemiologist who can totally nail that question, but I recognise and acknowledge completely the assumption. This disease has hit the least advantaged the…04 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, we would not ordinarily expect a big announcement on NHS funding at a Budget such as this, and the truth is that we are not through the woods yet. It is impossible to…04 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe noble Lord puts it extremely well. We have four key themes in the health track of the G7. The first is pandemic preparedness in the round; the second is clinical trial…04 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Brazilian VariantThose who travel to the UK must fill in a passenger locator form. On the PLF they have to state whether they have been in a red list country. We also share an enormous amount of…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Brazilian VariantThe vaccine is absolutely central to our strategy. It is an approach that has proved enormously popular, and I think I speak for a large number of people when I say that defending…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Brazilian VariantWe are uncertain on the vaccine. There is a huge amount of speculation, but I would recommend that noble Lords take it with a pinch of salt because we cannot know for sure how the…02 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium ValproateMy Lords, I will leave it to the response to the Cumberlege review to make the decision on the redress scheme. In the meantime, our focus is on a regime ensuring that those who…02 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium ValproateMy Lords, I pay tribute to those who have put together the valproate registry scheme that became live on 11 February. My noble friend is entirely right. There are 22,095 people on…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Brazilian VariantMy Lords, I remind my noble friend that we have some mandatory vaccination already in place in the health service; those who perform operations and other intimate health…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Brazilian VariantThe noble Lord is entirely right. Things are happening around the world which are causing a great deal of anxiety. Stories of possible reinfection in South Africa are extremely…02 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium ValproateMy Lords, the Government plan to respond further to the Cumberlege review later this year, as I committed in my recent Written Ministerial Statement. In the meantime, we are…02 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium ValproateAs my noble friend rightly acknowledges, the everyday workings of the commissioner require some work. That work is being finalised and regulations will be made setting out further…02 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium ValproateI am grateful to the noble Baroness for her tribute to my noble friend Lord O’Shaughnessy, who has done an enormous service to us all by championing this cause, both as a…02 Mar 2021