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HANSARDPoint of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. The evidence is as described. I would be very happy to take the hon. Lady and any other Member through the existing evidence and to…28 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19I beg to move, That this House has considered covid-19. Today’s debate comes at a critical moment, as coronavirus continues its deadly march across the globe. Too many lives have…28 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateAs the covid-19 incidence rate continues to rise across the country, a suite of local and national actions is required to break the trains of transmission and enable people to…25 Sept 2020HANSARDCoronavirus UpdateAs set out by the Prime Minister in Parliament on 22 September, the covid-19 infection rate is rising across the country. It is now vitally important that Government take decisive…24 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, I do. I come to this Dispatch Box as often as possible. I am very sorry that I was unable to come on Friday to discuss Friday’s decision, but the House was not sitting. I…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateVitamin D is one of the many things that we have looked into, to see whether it reduces the incidence or impact of coronavirus. I have seen reports that it does, so we put it into…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThat is a good point on which to end, because my right hon. Friend has worked incredibly hard over the last four or five days to try to ensure that we find a way to protect people…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes. We need the scale of the national system and the resonance of the local system and the local knowledge. We are increasingly driving things in that direction, and I would love…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI would be very interested in the examples, especially of people being sent long distances, because, as I said earlier, the information I have been given is that that problem has…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, the UK Government will be providing the funding so that the devolved Administrations are able to put similar support in place. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe Nightingale hospitals are there, ready to go if they are needed. They are currently mothballed and can be reopened very rapidly. We are working incredibly hard with the NHS to…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateOf course I am working to exactly that end. If somebody has the symptoms of coronavirus, they should self-isolate even if they cannot get a test. I understand how frustrating that…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateOn the contrary, the military’s support has been absolutely brilliant in expanding the testing system—test and trace—and it is engaged in the development of our vaccine roll-out…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThere absolutely will be a debate in this House on the measures that we have to use. We have to move very fast, and I am very happy to talk to my hon. Friend about SureScreen in…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe have protected the number of tests in care homes. The challenge is that when the system is running hot and the number of tests going through is very close to capacity, that can…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateAs a Conservative, I believe in as much freedom as possible consistent with not harming others. One of the sad things about this virus is that because of asymptomatic…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI entirely agree with my hon. Friend. Right across the board, it is critical that we are constantly learning about both what went well and what did not go well. The social care…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI urge the hon. Gentleman to take a lead from the SNP Front-Bench spokesman, the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Dr Whitford). These are very serious times, and since the Prime…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI agree with my hon. Friend that more enforcement is, sadly, necessary to ensure that these rules are followed across the board, because if people follow the rules across the…21 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe message that the hon. Member should be putting out and that I will set out is that, where we say that people should not socialise outside their household, that is the approach…21 Sept 2020