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HANSARDCoronavirusWe clearly want to lift these measures as soon as is reasonably possible. My goal is that we will eventually see covid as something that has to be managed rather like flu. We do…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusI am not quite sure what point the hon. Member is making, but this is what I was going on to say. The critical point where I ended the exchange with my right hon. Friend the…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusAll these questions will be answered as part of the work of the global travel taskforce, which the Prime Minister has announced will be published on 5 April, so I recommend that…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusI actually agree with my right hon. Friend that they should be expired at the earliest possible opportunity. The challenge, especially as we lift measures on all of us, is if…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusI will just make a little more progress. We are also suspending three further provisions, although they may need to be restored and called on if required. As well as that, we have…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusIt is very difficult to know in advance. At the peak of this pandemic, we had 38,000 patients in hospital across the UK at any one time with covid, but of course that meant that…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusThis data has been collated recently; it is in the so-called SIREN study from Public Health England. I am very happy to look into exactly the data that my hon. Friends are looking…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusYes—that is a very good way of putting it; in fact, it was on the next page of my script. It is a pleasure to be as one with my hon. Friend after all this time, and I hope very…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusI am an optimist, as I just said. Let me carry on detailing the purpose of these measures. Step 2 allows non-essential retail and personal care services to reopen. We have said…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusYes, the data on the impact of the vaccine—including side effects from the vaccine and the rare occasions when, sadly, people die after having had the vaccine—are published by the…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusWhile modelling is obviously something that is looked at, the observation of the actual data is I think the best guide. The good news is that the number of deaths has fallen very…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusI just want to answer my hon. Friend’s second point before taking further interventions. His point about long covid is important. In fact, the National Institute for Health…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusOver the past year, we have all been engaged in a monumental national effort to fight coronavirus, which has required the House to take extraordinary measures in response to this…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusFurlough is provided for under the Act. As I just said, it is a permanent provision of the Act, but the statutory sick pay is not and I think we should be giving people statutory…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusI have not seen that article in The Times —I have read parts of The Times , but not that bit—so I cannot confirm, but I can write to my right hon. Friend with details on this…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusI beg to move, That the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Steps) (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I., 2021, No. 364), dated 22 March 2021, a copy of which was laid…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusYes, that is an important point. We have just started the process of working on that. If measures have worked well and we want to keep them because they are good, can we put them…25 Mar 2021HANSARDCoronavirusThat is a good question. The truth is that we have a record number of nurses in the NHS, over 300,000, in part because the Act allowed for their emergency registration much more…25 Mar 2021HANSARDUK Health Security AgencyI wish to inform the House of progress in establishing the UK health security agency and the appointment of its leadership. In August 2020, the Government announced its intention…24 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care UpdateWith permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the support that we are giving to the NHS and social care to help recover from the pandemic. Before…18 Mar 2021