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HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy right hon. Friend is right to raise the issue of the level of hospitalisations as one of the key factors and conditions for exit, as set out by the Prime Minister. The good…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe are not proposing to mandate vaccination, partly for the reasons that my hon. Friend sets out. Anyway, vaccine take-up has been really very high—much higher than expected—which…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am afraid I do not agree with the hon. Lady one bit. We write regularly to those who are shielding and we write to them individually, so I am not going to make a blanket…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am aware of and also worried about the continued high rates of infections in north Northants, which has not had a particularly bad pandemic thus far but now, at this point,…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI pay tribute to everybody at the Henfield Medical Centre doing this incredible work. It is really uplifting being in a health centre. If Members have not been to a vaccination…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe announced in the spending review significant extra funding to tackle the backlog. I am very proud of cancer services throughout the country, which have kept up the work during…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe have put in place the extra £500 for those on low incomes to ensure that everybody can get the financial support that they may need while self-isolating.09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Lady raises an important point, which is taken into account in the work that we are doing to push forward high-quality ventilation, which is good for tackling carbon…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes. Stoke-on-Trent has been ably and effectively represented in this discussion, and everybody across Stoke deserves praise for the work that they are doing to drive up the…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, absolutely. I want to thank everybody across Norfolk and Waveney for the work they have been doing to roll out this vaccine. It is a critical part of the country in terms of…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe have had significant measures at the border throughout. The new, stronger measures are necessary because of the arrival around the world of new variants of concern at the same…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, that is exactly the principle on which we are proceeding. I pay tribute to the work that the hon. Lady does in this area and in always speaking up for those who are in…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateOn the first point—the point of clarity—my hon. Friend has stated the position exactly correctly. On the second, we want of course to be able to exit from these arrangements into…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI was listening very carefully to the hon. Gentleman, and I think I take that as support for the measures we are bringing in. On the specific points the hon. Gentleman raises, he…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, absolutely. One of the things that we have been doing in our discussions with hotel groups and others is ensuring value for money as much as possible for passengers. Hence we…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI do not say this lightly, but I agree with every single word that the right hon. Lady said. I want to pay tribute to her, because I have not had the chance in the House to thank…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI want to praise the hon. Lady for the leadership she is showing locally in driving up those vaccination rates. The fewer people who are left unprotected by the jab, the safer we…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThere is no evidence at all that the vaccine negatively affects fertility. There are many myths about vaccines, and I am very glad that they have largely been rightly ignored by…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, I asked for specific advice on this when we saw the increased transmissibility of the B117 strain—the so-called Kent variant. Exactly this question was reviewed. As the right…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes. When we see the community transmission of a variant of concern, we send in extra testing, and sequence all the positives to try to find any other variant of concern nearby.…09 Feb 2021