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HANSARD Public HealthI will be brief—I do not want to try your patience, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Winchester (Steve Brine) raised his point because earlier this week we had…06 Jan 2021HANSARDPublic HealthMy hon. Friend makes a good point, because that will help us to understand the extent to which the new variant is spreading across the country; I know that the Government are…30 Dec 2020HANSARDPublic HealthMay I put on the record some remarks about our former colleague the Member for Northampton South, Brian Binley? He was first elected in 2005, in the same election as me, and was a…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe Secretary of State, with his announcement, has effectively locked down most of England. In a previous interview with Andrew Marr, he said we will effectively be staying in…30 Dec 2020HANSARDPublic HealthThe Minister is being generous in giving way. I wish to ask about one issue that cropped up today at the Prime Minister’s press conference, and something that Professor Van-Tam…30 Dec 2020HANSARDPublic HealthCan I look into that point a bit? I thank the Opposition spokesman for giving us so much time to deal with the things we did not have time to deal with in our limited remarks. On…30 Dec 2020HANSARDPublic HealthWill my hon. Friend give way?30 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI welcome the fact that Gloucestershire is remaining in tier 2. and thank the Secretary of State for his engagement with me and my Gloucestershire colleagues this week—it was very…17 Dec 2020HANSARD Virginity Testing (Prohibition)On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. You will be aware that there is much debate outside the House about the provisions for the Christmas period and the relaxation of the…15 Dec 2020HANSARDFuture Relationship with the EUIt was interesting that the hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves), who speaks for the Opposition, did not address the central question at the root of these issues, which is…10 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-outI join the Secretary of State in thanking the NHS staff in my Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust who are in the first 50 hospitals to be rolling out the vaccine. That…08 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthCovid is a very serious disease, and I take it very seriously, as I do the pressures on our national health service. It is disappointing that some people, when faced with…01 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Winter PlanI thank the Prime Minister for agreeing to meet me and my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr Baker), who were there on behalf of 70 colleagues who wrote to him at the weekend,…23 Nov 2020HANSARD Participation in DebatesI welcome what the Leader of the House has brought forward, but I have listened carefully to what has been said and I really do not understand why we cannot extend participation…16 Nov 2020HANSARDArmed Forces: Covid-19 DeploymentMay I put on record the fact that this response to the pandemic has demonstrated the United Kingdom at its best? My local regiment, 1st Battalion The Rifles, helped the Welsh…10 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthI have listened carefully to the argument and looked at the data very carefully. What I am troubled by—when I have looked at the basis on which the modelling has been done, in…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthI am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. You will have understood from my intervention on the Prime Minister earlier that, for only the second time in my 15 years in Parliament, I am…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthWill my right hon. Friend give way?04 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19There are several points that I want to cover. First, I will just reiterate to the Minister what I said to the Leader of the House. I really do not think that a 90-minute debate…02 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19I take that point. I do have sympathy with the Government—I was a business manager—but it seems to me that the decision the House is being asked to make on Wednesday is an…02 Nov 2020