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HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, the noble Baroness is entirely right: the whole purpose of the isolation payments and the idea behind them is the recognition that people who are being asked to…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe noble Lord makes his point well, but I respectfully disagree. One of the great challenges from closing schools is that young people then socialise and spread the disease much…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI completely accept the point made by the noble Baroness. It is incredibly frustrating that the exact communities which have often seen some of the highest mortality rates are…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I am extremely grateful for the clear and thoughtful questioning from the noble Baronesses, Lady Thornton and Lady Jolly. Both of them are right: we are seeing a sharp…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for his description of affairs, which, as ever, is as thoughtful as we would hope. However, I clarify and disagree…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I feel the point that my noble friend makes extremely personally. I am currently isolating with a 14 year-old; like many 14 year-olds, he and his friends never…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI completely acknowledge the correlation between mortality and learning difficulties that the noble Baroness alludes to. PHE has looked at this in respect of Covid very closely.…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, the restrictions in England have never been based on a two-week circuit breaker. It was not a policy that the DHSC supported.15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, we always seek to give the public as much notice as possible. But I accept that one of the most frustrating aspects of this pandemic has been that the virus does not…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Mackenzie, makes a powerful case. There is undoubtedly a dilemma about what we should do in the approach to Christmas. The country does deserve a…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCare Quality Commission ReportI am not sure that I completely recognise the numbers given by the noble Baroness. In August, there were 365 instances of seclusion and 10 instances of segregation of those with…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am enormously grateful for the work that the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, and the National Mental Capacity Forum have done during the pandemic. The issue of mental capacity and…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank my noble friend for providing this opportunity to scotch that unhelpful rumour. I confirm that there are absolutely no animal components in the vaccine. That point has…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateIf I have heard the question correctly, that is exactly how the test release scheme works. Travellers are invited to sign the appropriate forms and after some days they can be…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCare Quality Commission ReportMy Lords, the Government are clear that in-patient care should be high quality, therapeutic and for the shortest time possible, and that any kind of restraint should be used only…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, is right to be concerned. Some of the data we have on public attitudes is of extreme concern and the statistics he has referred to show…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCare Quality Commission ReportI completely endorse the noble Baroness’s observations. She is entirely right that the 66 case studies in the report make very harrowing reading. That is why the report was…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCare Quality Commission ReportMy Lords, I would be grateful to hear from the Rights for Residents campaign, which sounds like an important and valuable contribution. I reassure the noble Baroness that the…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCare Quality Commission ReportI am very grateful for the reminder from the noble Baroness, and I would be glad to take her recommendation back to the department and write to her on whether there are any…15 Dec 2020HANSARDOckenden ReviewMy Lords, it would be premature of me to describe in too much detail how any patient commissioner may work, since we are half way through the Bill’s progress. But I would like to…14 Dec 2020