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HANSARDCoronavirusMy Lords, I am indeed an avid listener of “More or Less,” although I have not heard the episode to which the noble Lord referred. Can I just explain that not all tests need to be…16 Sept 2020HANSARDCoronavirusI am grateful for the noble Baroness’s questions. In terms of European rates, Britain is way ahead of many of its fellow countries in Europe. On Friday last week, we did 240,312…16 Sept 2020HANSARDCoronavirusMy Lords, I thank colleagues at the DfE for their hard work in providing guidelines to universities and to vice-chancellors for implementing thoughtful arrangements for the return…16 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS Long-term PlanMy Lords, the right reverend Prelate is right; health inequalities are a massive priority for the Government. Covid has demonstrated how health inequalities play out when an…15 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS Long-term PlanMy noble friend is entirely right to raise the importance of social care. Undoubtably, one of the things that we have learned through Covid is that the NHS and social care sectors…15 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS Long-term PlanMy Lords, I cannot commit to a social care plan before the end of the year. It will require a huge amount of political collaboration and I suspect it will take longer than the…15 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS Long-term PlanMy Lords, the Chancellor has made it clear that catch-up support for the NHS to recover from the impact of Covid is an important part of his financial projections. However, I…15 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS Long-term PlanI thank the noble Lord for his generous comments towards the NHS. Undoubtedly it is true that, after a massive epidemic such as the one we are living through, we will have to…15 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS Long-term PlanI completely agree. It is a grave shame that too many diagnoses happen late. We are proud of our acute care, but it is this Government’s mission to move to a priority around early…15 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS Long-term PlanWe are enormously proud of the commitment to early intervention on cancer. This is the absolute core of our life science priorities. It is envisaged that we will have a revolution…15 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS Long-term PlanWe do not just stand and praise. We are recruiting a huge number of new staff—50,000 more nurses and more GPs—and we invest in them through our people plan.15 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS Long-term PlanMy Lords, I pay tribute to the NHS for its remarkable achievements in response to Covid-19, from freeing up an additional 33,000 beds for Covid patients, to maintaining access to…15 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS Long-term PlanI am grateful to the noble Baroness for raising the importance of community nursing, and all community-based healthcare, including community diagnostic hubs. The interest in nurse…15 Sept 2020HANSARDAnti-obesity StrategiesMy noble friend makes an incredibly thoughtful, practical point. Of course, it is easier to tell whether someone is abiding by their obesity commitments if you see them face to…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Lord’s campaigning on this issue; he has contributed to the Government changing their strategy on mask wearing. However, we are here…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, that is the pub-quiz question of all pub-quiz questions. There are special provisions for families that are, like the noble Lord’s, separated or complex. Those…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I completely endorse my noble friend’s comments on raves, but the effectiveness of these measures is reliant not just on police implementation but the compliance of the…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, my noble friend describes in the most beautiful and succinct way exactly the strategy that we are following. It balances on the one hand a fight against disease, a…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness and the noble Lord for their perceptive and thoughtful questions. On the noble Baroness’s questions about the level of alert, to my knowledge…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank my noble friend for his comments, but my perspective is slightly different. The fact is that this disease is incredibly aggressive and nimble; we sometimes have to turn…14 Sept 2020