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HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI totally understand why people want the answer to that question, because of the hope that the vaccine gives us. What I can tell the hon. Lady is that the speed of the roll-out…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 UpdateMy right hon. Friend is absolutely spot on. The issue of long covid is very serious, and we have put more support into the NHS and into research to try to understand it better. I…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, of course. This has been looked into in great detail, and the clinical prioritisation includes those who are under 50 but are clinically vulnerable to the effects of…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWell, yes—in principle. The point is to protect the NHS and to stop people dying from the disease. While at the moment cases are a very clear proxy for future hospitalisations and…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, it is incredibly important that we support the NHS with the workforce that it needs—both the permanent workforce, where we have increased the number of nurses by over 13,000…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Gentleman is right that this virus has thrown up problems and challenges right around the world; we have seen the impact in other countries in some of the news from other…30 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateYesterday, we conducted the latest formal review of tier allocations across England. The allocations and a detailed rationale can be found attached. The new variant means that…30 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateYes; if my right hon. Friend has the test reference number I will get on to it right away. If NHS Test and Trace has not contacted the owner, that might imply that he does not…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am glad to say that we are making significant progress on tackling this issue. When the hon. Gentleman says it is a licensing concern, that should not be read to imply that it…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateYes, we are working exactly on how to demonstrate that in a numerical rather than a narrative form, not least for the reasons that my hon. Friend sets out. We have seen a very…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI could not agree more with my hon. Friend. He knows about these things, and he is exactly right that the best thing everyone can do, when the NHS calls, is to take up that…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI will write to my hon. Friend immediately with our plans for the roll-out of primary care-based vaccination facilities in Aylesbury. I regret having to put Buckinghamshire into…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank the hon. Gentleman very much for his kind words. He said that people have been encouraged every time I have come to the Dispatch Box. Given some of the things I have had…17 Dec 2020HANSARDContingencies Fund AdvanceThe Department of Health and Social Care has sought a repayable cash advance from the contingencies fund of £34,000,000,000. The Department of Health and Social Care’s net cash…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWe are working on exactly that proposal, because the need to use testing and use the easily available and rapid-return lateral flow devices is incredibly important. They have an…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI understand my hon. Friend’s disappointment at this decision. We looked very closely at Trafford, Stockport, Tameside and nearby High Peak, and the proposal to take a different…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe hon. Gentleman is right to raise this issue. In fact, I was talking about the vaccination programme to the SNP Cabinet Secretary for Health only this morning, because making…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI feel gratitude to everyone in Hull for the work they have done to get case rates down as far as they have. Hull has done well, along with the rest of the Humber area, but we are…17 Dec 2020