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HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe Prime Minister is seeking precisely to do that and he, like me, very much hopes that the local leadership in Greater Manchester will do their bit. When it comes to Cheshire…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe answer is yes. We absolutely want to use this sort of testing as it becomes more widely available to do exactly the sort of thing that my right hon. Friend sets out.20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateYes, I strongly agree. I praise my hon. Friend’s leadership in his local community in making this case. The number of cases in Nottingham and increasingly across Nottinghamshire…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWe are working incredibly hard to support the action that is needed to suppress this virus, while protecting the NHS and schools and supporting the economy as much as is possible.…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThat is an overinterpretation of my comments. The discussions with the local leadership in South Yorkshire have been very constructive, very positive and all focused on the public…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateYes, absolutely. Support proportionate to the support made available to Lancashire is on the table. We are willing to meet anybody from Greater Manchester to help make this…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWe have, thankfully, seen that the number of excess deaths is around the level of the long-term average. I want to keep it that way and that is why we are taking the action that…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateOn the contrary, we are working hard across party lines and trying to rise above that sort of political attack to work for the benefit and the public interests of everybody in…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 Updaterose—20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe questions were so good, Mr Speaker, that I was enthusiastic to answer them as quickly as possible. I am a fan of fast turnaround times, and hope I can ensure that the data…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy hon. Friend puts the case very clearly, and she is right. We do not want businesses in Stockport to be disadvantaged, so an offer, proportionate to the support that we have put…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe hon. Gentleman makes an argument that my hon. Friend the Member for Southport (Damien Moore) has consistently made. Why do we not have a conversation about it and see whether…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI think there is a duty for all of us to send messages to the communities that we serve that people need to take personal responsibility to try to reduce the spread of the virus.…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe answer is yes and yes. They will be there to benefit everyone across the whole United Kingdom.20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateYes, I wholeheartedly agree. The localised and regional approach is increasingly being taken up around the world—for instance, in France. Indeed, Sweden, which has often been…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe offer that was made to Greater Manchester was proportionate to the support that we have already given to and agreed with the local leadership in Liverpool and Lancashire, and…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe money that we are proposing, and put on the table for Greater Manchester, is exactly the same as the amount that was agreed with the leadership of Liverpool and of Lancashire.…20 Oct 2020HANSARDPandemic Preparedness Exercise: ReportToday, I am publishing the report into Exercise Cygnus. Exercise Cygnus was a national exercise that took place in 2016. It looked at how well prepared the UK was to respond to a…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateContrary to the way that the hon. Gentleman described it, the Government have put forward the same proposals in Greater Manchester that were agreed in Lancashire and in Liverpool.…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateIn areas that we are already in discussions with, such as South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, the north-east and Nottinghamshire, right across the board those discussions are…20 Oct 2020