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HANSARDTest and TraceIt is very strange taking these questions from the SNP spokesman, given that I am working with the SNP Government on resolving exactly these problems in Scotland, and maybe the…23 Jun 2020HANSARDContingencies Fund AdvanceThe Department of Health and Social Care’s vote on account cash limit has been used in full between April 2020 and June 2020 to support the running costs of the department, NHS…18 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusWhen the demand for PPE shot up, as it did not only here, but around the world, we worked with so many companies to deliver extra PPE, and we have managed to deliver on what was…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusYes, absolutely. Given the economic consequences of the pandemic, it is vital that we get on with these go-getting economic projects. I wish my hon. Friend well in his support of…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusNo.17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusWe are having such discussions—I have had conversations with my German, French and Italian counterparts on exactly this subject—but the most important thing is that we will not…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusCo-trimoxazole is another the prospect that we are looking at, but I am afraid that, as with my answer to my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (John Redwood), the timing…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusAbsolutely. My right hon. Friend is the greatest friend that there is to the Princess Alex Hospital in Harlow. He has campaigned on it absolutely rigorously—ruthlessly, too—since…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusNo. We have enhanced, under the leadership of Lord Deighton, the supplies of PPE across the whole United Kingdom. I work very closely with the SNP Government on this matter. We…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusThis is a great question, and we look all the time for countries around the world that we can learn from. It is true that, in terms of where we were on the epidemiological curve,…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusThe answer is that we keep all our non-pharmaceutical interventions—the social distancing measures—under review. The 2-metre rule is another social distancing measure in the same…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusI will try to answer as many of the questions as I can. First, I concur entirely that we should have no truck with anti-vaccination campaigners. The reason we are working so hard…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusThe hon. Lady asks an important question. We have been increasing funding to mental health services, which are an incredibly important part of the response. Our mental health…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusI have looked into that idea in great detail, and I am afraid that I am advised, and have been persuaded by that advice, that it will not work. It has been tried in other parts of…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusMy right hon. Friend is an incredible campaigner for Epsom General Hospital. The injection of approximately half a billion pounds into the local health economy will be a very…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusI accept responsibility for everything that happens across the health and social care piece. It is incredibly important to work with care homes, as we have, and to fund care…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusI agree with every word that the hon. Lady says.17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusThat is a really important point. Not only do we contribute more to the global vaccination funding programme than any other country—and we hosted the GAVI summit, which raised…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusYes. My hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point, which is that the mental health of our key workers, including those working in the NHS and social care, is incredibly…17 Jun 2020HANSARDCoronavirusAs well as being a huge enthusiast for the A&E in Chorley and working on that, Mr Speaker, I am also a huge enthusiast for the use of technology. The No. 1 lesson we learned from…17 Jun 2020