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HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateThe hon. Gentleman makes a really important point and it is a shame that he uses such adversarial language. The test and trace system is getting better and better, and masks in…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateI would love to visit Ashfield Hospital in person and to be able to thank every single person who is there and has worked so hard during this pandemic, from the chief executive to…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateCan I, through you, Mr Deputy Speaker, note to the House that we have been incredibly busy in the Department of Health and Social Care? We will get back to the hon. Member’s…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateThe vaccine programme is getting all the possible support we can give it, including attention right across the top of Government. It is being led by Kate Bingham, who is doing the…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateWe are looking at all the evidence and take very seriously all the academic, professional and medical studies of the pandemic and the response to it, both here and around the…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateWe do not anticipate that at this point. We of course keep all things under review, but, in the first instance, the proposal is—in the same way that we brought it in on public…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateWe are working on exactly that. This is one of a number of questions that have rightly been asked about the long-term impact of covid and making sure we have the NHS treatment…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Points of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I would be very happy to meet my hon. Friend the Member for North Herefordshire (Bill Wiggin), who is an assiduous…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateYes, of course we keep this under review. The evidence shows that the most important difference that we can make to get yet more people into the test and trace system is for…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateThis attempt to divide us is very unfortunate. The UK Government have put testing capacity into Wales that is bigger than NHS Wales’s own capacity, and we do that in Scotland as…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateI have come to Parliament to explain it at the first opportunity.14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateI have been engaged positively with the Welsh Government throughout, and when we have had concerns—for instance, about the outbreaks the Welsh Government were handling in Wrexham…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateThere are 144,000 people who have been asked to isolate who simply would not have known that they were at risk before the large-scale track and trace programme was put in place.…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateI certainly agree that the UK has throughout the virus moved largely in lockstep but for a few days in some cases, owing to the implementation and timings of these sorts of…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateI take very seriously the royal colleges report. We are engaged in a massive ramp-up of testing and of the contact tracing that my right hon. Friend has long championed. The scale…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateI can certainly answer some of the genuine questions that were under there. The tone of constructive engagement that the hon. Gentleman used to employ was a better one for him. We…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateYes. Local action can be anything from action in an individual business premises, an individual farm, as we saw in Herefordshire over the weekend, or an individual GP surgery, up…14 Jul 2020HANSARD Coronavirus UpdateIt is vital that all those things are brought together at both a national and a local level, and they are. The actions that have been taken under the NHS test and trace programme,…14 Jul 2020HANSARD CoronavirusThe Government of the United Kingdom will recommend a vaccine as soon as one is available that is safe, but only when it is safe. It is so important, and it is incumbent on every…07 Jul 2020HANSARD CoronavirusWe are bringing coronavirus under control. Yesterday’s figures showed 352 new cases, the lowest since lockdown began. That is down from over 5,000 a day at the peak. Two hundred…07 Jul 2020