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HANSARDLevelling UpMy Lords, can the Minister explain why the time to travel to work in a car, such as a Bentley or a BMW, is a weighted factor worth nearly 20% of all weighting to steer funding for…18 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget StatementMy Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. People who require social care and healthcare will feel let down by this Budget. Leaving…12 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS: PayMy Lords, the £37 billion found for the predominantly private sector-led test and trace system equates to spending more than £1 million every day for the next 100 years. How does…09 Mar 2021HANSARDCOVID-19 Vaccine CertificationMy Lords, how will the Government mitigate the risk that introducing vaccine certificates will move toward a system of individual risk-scoring that could undermine public health…04 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Brazilian VariantMy Lords, tracing new variants will be key in the next phase of this public health challenge. So why does the £22 billion test and trace system not have an individual identifier…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid Contracts: Judicial ReviewMy Lords, 25 million masks that could not be used were supplied by a pest control firm in a £59 million deal, while a Mauritius hedge fund got £252 million, and, again, the face…01 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers and Self-Isolation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021My Lords, four months have passed since the Minister told the public that the memorandum of understanding on data sharing between the National Police Chiefs’ Council and his…01 Mar 2021HANSARDFuture of Health and CareMy Lords, nearly 75% of NHS expenditure goes on hospital and ambulatory care. Will the Minister explain how the proposed reforms will, in reality, lead to the redirecting of…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccines DeploymentMy Lords, some GPs in Sheffield have told me today that their hubs have a zero supply of vaccine and have been closed for over a week. However, they have not yet vaccinated all of…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Self-IsolationTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the number of people self-isolating who have been asked to do so as a result of testing positive for COVID-19.10 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Self-IsolationMy Lords, surveys show that approximately a third of people stop self-isolating between one and five days, with many saying that, despite the current cash support, it is the…10 Feb 2021HANSARDHS2: Phase 2BDo the Government still agree with the economic justification for HS2, which shows that in Sheffield, Leeds, Chesterfield, Nottingham and the east Midlands, HS2 will create over…08 Feb 2021HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021My Lords, another day, another statutory instrument on coronavirus. As the Hansard Society notes: “The government has laid 364 Coronavirus-related Statutory Instruments … before…08 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, virologists tell us that, even with vaccines, we will be living with Covid for years to come. The Statement says: “Our mission must be to stop its spread altogether and…04 Feb 2021HANSARDNational Risk RegisterHaving a good risk register is not the same as having a good system of risk management. Despite pandemic being mentioned as a significant risk in the national risk register, why…03 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: VaccinesMy Lords, having the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines in the right quantities in the right place at the right time is vital. Will the Minister guarantee that people…01 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19My Lords, countries that have managed this public health crisis best, with fewest deaths, least damage to their economies and young people being kept in education, have adopted…28 Jan 2021HANSARDWest Yorkshire Combined Authority (Election of Mayor and Functions) Order 2021As somebody born and raised in Huddersfield and whose family still lives there, now calling Sheffield my home, I feel I have a little knowledge about West Yorkshire and the…26 Jan 2021HANSARDVaccine RolloutMy Lords, here in Sheffield, approximately 45,000 people have been vaccinated, owing to the excellent work of our local GP hubs, but because of lack of vaccine supply, 10 out of…25 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerMy Lords, we now know that a weekly weeding session from the database owned and operated by the Home Office takes place for DNA and fingerprint records, and this has links to…19 Jan 2021