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HANSARD Public HealthI will happily take that point away, but I can tell my right hon. Friend that that supply allows for delivery on the schedule and the target the Prime Minister set, to which my…06 Jan 2021HANSARD Public HealthI will come on precisely to my hon. Friend’s point, because that is a critical question that I know people are rightly asking: if we are going to have these restrictions, how do…06 Jan 2021HANSARD Public HealthThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will try to answer these interventions briefly, but they are important because people want to know what is the way out of these restrictions,…06 Jan 2021HANSARD Public HealthYes, of course, we have been not only watching for mutations but, indeed, testing for mutations throughout, and it is partly because the UK has the biggest genomic testing…06 Jan 2021HANSARD Public HealthWhile these regulations do provide for new restrictions until the end of March, that is not because we expect the full national lockdown to continue until then, but to allow the…06 Jan 2021HANSARD Public HealthYes I will. I am glad I took that final intervention. The people of Wolverhampton have come together to deliver community testing in an incredibly impressive way. I have heard…06 Jan 2021HANSARD Public HealthI beg to move, That the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 3) and (All Tiers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I., 2021, No. 8), dated 5 January 2021, a…06 Jan 2021HANSARD Public HealthOf course we are considering who, once we have vaccinated those who are clinically vulnerable, should be the next priority for vaccination. Teachers, of course, have a very strong…06 Jan 2021HANSARD Public HealthWe have; we spent the summer working on that. The vaccine has sprung into prominence in the public debate over the past month or so, but we were working on that though the whole…06 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateToday marks a great stride forward in our plan to get us out of this pandemic and to return to normal life. Our strategy throughout has been to suppress the virus until a vaccine…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, I absolutely will. We already look at the impact on the NHS, of course, but that will become more important as more and more people are vaccinated and, we hope, the…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe have to remember that the vaccine is a great symbol of hope, but it is a means to an end, and the end is the lifting of restrictions and the restoration of our liberties and…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe will vaccinate according to clinical need, because that is the best way both to protect lives and to be able to lift the restrictions.30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateAs I have said, we will absolutely vaccinate according to clinical need. Once we are through those clinical need cohorts, there is a very important call on the next set of…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe have put in more support to help care homes with the challenges that covid throws up, in relation to both testing and other things such as PPE that are so necessary. I am very…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe ability of the Oxford vaccine to be easily transported makes a huge difference, because it means we can take it to care homes—we can take the vaccine to the people—rather than…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe majority of infections happen within the household, from one person in a household to another. That is, perhaps, inevitable, because we are physically closest to those with…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, I am pretty sure that that has been done. If it has not, I will absolutely check and get back to my hon. Friend. If anybody who is clinically qualified comes forward, we are…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Lady’s question is one for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has done more than almost any Finance Minister in the world to support people—whether…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, absolutely. This is a UK vaccine that is being deployed across the UK fairly, according to clinical need. I spoke to my opposite number in Northern Ireland this morning, and…30 Dec 2020