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HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThese cases would be caught by the new hotel quarantine policy. The right hon. Lady talks about the need for more testing, and we have introduced tests on day 2 and day 8, to…02 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes; this is one of the hon. Lady’s campaigns that we can all get behind. She is quite right to raise the work that is being done in Walthamstow, which is very impressive. I will…02 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, I do. I want to add one more person to the long list of people whom the hon. Lady rightly thanked for their incredible work of getting take-up in Lambeth to as high as 85%…02 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe obviously had a tiered system over the autumn and one of the challenges we found was of people travelling from a part of the country where rates are higher to those where rates…02 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsOn the right hon. Gentleman’s first point, such a reasonable and sensible man is, of course, always welcome on these Benches, and I might ask, since his wife is taking the Labour…23 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s work in making sure that all carers, who are properly in priority group 6, get the opportunity to be vaccinated, including those who may be…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccination ProgrammeI am delighted that on 14 February we hit our target of vaccinating 15 million people across the UK and now more than 17.7 million people—one in three adults in the country—have…23 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI think my hon. Friend has just made his heartfelt plea and it has certainly landed with me, but I am not surprised because he has made this case to me on behalf of his…23 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWell, I am going to start by congratulating the hon. Gentleman—the right hon. Gentleman—on his appointment to the Privy Council. I appreciate the work that he has done in support…23 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsYesterday, the Government published the road map that will put us cautiously but, we hope, irreversibly on the path towards reclaiming our freedoms once more. We are able to take…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccination ProgrammeYes. We are absolutely all on the same side on this issue. To be totally clear for the hon. Lady, and all those listening, the Prime Minister set out that we would offer the…23 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady is a long-standing and passionate campaigner for Kuvan, and I pay tribute to the work that she has done. The NICE methods review looks at the question she raises. It…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccination ProgrammeYes, I do. All those who arrive in this country as passengers need to undergo quarantine, and we have both the hotel quarantine and home quarantine; all need to be tested; and all…23 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe good news is that, thanks in part to the work that my right hon. Friend did when he was in my shoes, we now have a record number of doctors in the NHS, and he will have been…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccination ProgrammeMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to make this link, because not only are the vaccines important to keep each individual safe—we saw wonderful data yesterday about how effective…23 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe will need to draw many lessons from the pandemic. For instance, my brilliant team who have done all this procurement of PPE have also built an onshore PPE manufacturing…23 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccination ProgrammeYes, when the vaccination programme goes to a care home, vaccines are offered both to residents and to staff, of course. We want to support the ability of more and more people to…23 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The court ruling in question found that we were on average 17 days late with the paperwork, but it did not find against any of the individual…23 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am very happy to take up that proposal. Nobody should be harassed when accessing any medical treatment. There are agreed rules around abortion and people should be able to…23 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs we have repeatedly explained, supply is the rate-limiting factor. The hon. Member will no doubt have seen that there have been international discussions on the rate of supply,…23 Feb 2021