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HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseWith permission, I would like to make a statement on coronavirus. Thanks to the collective determination and resolve of the nation, we are winning this battle. We have flattened…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseThe hon. Lady is quite right about the devices that we need for monitoring. Through the public health authorities, extensive operations are already in place to monitor outbreaks,…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseI entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman that it is critical that people play their part in making sure that we continue the work of controlling this virus and driving down the…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseWe have supported and helped the Scottish Government throughout this, because although they have missed their targets in the roll-out on tests delivered in Scotland, the UK…02 Jun 2020HANSARDNHS Test and TraceOn 28 May the NHS Test And Trace service was introduced across England. This forms a central part of the Government’s covid-19 recovery strategy to help as many people as possible…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseYes, I will. The manufacturing of pottery and chinaware in Stoke-on-Trent has long been one of the finest things in this country. My hon. Friend is an inesteemable representative,…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseIt is very important that we look all the risk factors, including ethnicity, that have an impact. Indeed, that is what our broad approach has been, led by our shielding programme,…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseNo, I am not saying that. I asked Public Health England to produce this work because I was very worried by the evidence of the increased morbidity and mortality among black and…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseWe have reviewed the science on the 2 metre rule. The challenge is that the further apart people are, the less likely is transmission of the virus, so the rules we have in place…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseI’m on it.02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseI have not received mine, but I would like to. Let us try to find it, wherever it has got to in the system—it might be in the bowels of the Department of Health and Social Care…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseThe hon. Lady is right to raise the case of Weston hospital. We have been working hard to ensure that the local outbreak is brought under control, and we are making progress. She…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseThe report was delivered to me on Sunday—on deadline—and I have published it two days later, so we have been moving at pace in this space. It is a Public Health England report and…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseThat is an incredibly important point, because there has been a disproportionate impact on transport workers, particularly those who, by the nature of their work, have to be in…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseThe hon. Lady is quite right to report the views of local public health staff, who are right to raise the question. I am pleased to say that the turnaround speed has significantly…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseThe hon. Lady is absolutely right to raise that. It appals me that people would try to raise a scam in response to this mission-critical national project of NHS Test and Trace.…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseThe hon. Gentleman is right to ask that question in the sensitive manner in which he does. Of course, I have had discussions with my colleague the Secretary of State for…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseI can absolutely confirm that. I know my hon. Friend understands this, not least because I think that both her parents are doctors who are absolutely in the heat of this. In terms…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseThe hon. Lady is quite right to raise this issue and to discuss it in the way she does. Working with the council in Brent, where this disease had one of the highest impacts at the…02 Jun 2020HANSARD Covid-19 ResponseIf it’s sunny in Manchester, it really must be hot. [Interruption.] Coming from the north-west myself, I know how much it rains in that part of the world. The, the—I have…02 Jun 2020