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HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccines DeploymentMy Lords, I reassure the noble Baroness that the interval protocols for the Pfizer vaccine have been completely endorsed by the JCVI, the CMO and the MHRA. They are extremely…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccines DeploymentI am enormously grateful to the right reverend Prelate for mentioning practice managers. Managers in the NHS are sometimes given a bit of a hard time and are too often overlooked.…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccines DeploymentAs ever, my noble friend is extremely perceptive in his insight. The Moderna vaccine is indeed an interesting one that may well prove to be a useful complement to the Pfizer and…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for that suggestion and I will take it back to the department. I have not heard it suggested. It is not currently in our plans at the…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccines DeploymentMy Lords, I pay tribute to the Welsh for hitting that remarkable number. I thank the noble Lord very much indeed for bringing it to the House’s attention. I absolutely assure him…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccines DeploymentMy Lords, my noble friend is entirely right that there are many mysteries of immunity that we do not fully understand. While we have some strong evidence on the transmissibility…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19I am grateful for the noble Lord’s fascinating mathematics, but there are other principles at stake here and I am not quite sure that his arithmetic can be leaned upon. One of…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19I do not agree with my noble friend on this in any way—fraud is fraud. If you put people in danger, you deserve to serve the consequences. It will be up to either the magistrate…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19I am extremely grateful for the noble Viscount’s kind remarks. They are rightly directed at those responsible for the deployment of the vaccine. The NHS itself has been a central…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19My Lords, I am enormously grateful for the noble Lord’s legal insight and will leave it to the courts to decide whether he is right or wrong.11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19My Lords, we have only one package in hotel quarantine; there is no VIP suite, so those arriving in their Learjets at Farnborough will have to check in with all the rest of us. As…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19I completely endorse my noble friend’s comments. I am personally extremely committed to travelling. I would fight for the right to travel and I believe in its value. I am…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19The virus mutates all the time and minute variations have happened from the very beginning. However, this virus has been unusual in not having profound mutations; it had not…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19My noble friend of all people should know that it is an unfortunate comparison to make between the quite legitimate efforts of the Government to keep out killer viruses with those…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19My Lords, the noble Lord seems to be forgetting that it is not Parliament that is going to be sending people to prison but the courts, and courts are perfectly capable of…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19My Lords, I think I have made the point reasonably clearly, but I am happy to make it again: it is up to the courts to decide how long people go to prison for and it is up to…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Self-IsolationMy Lords, of course, employees should be working from home wherever possible, and that is why our focus has not been on this area to date. I emphasise that on Monday the community…10 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Self-IsolationMy Lords, in terms of the numbers or proportion of those isolating, a large number of figures is being bandied around. Some apply to last year and some to this year. I raise…10 Feb 2021HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021That the Regulations laid before the House on 19 January be approved. Relevant document: 43rd Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. Considered in Grand…10 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Self-IsolationThe method of counting is done in the way that it is at the moment because we did try the way that the noble Baroness recommends and that led to all sorts of confusion. It led to…10 Feb 2021