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HANSARD Covid-19: Support for Aviation, Tourism and Travel IndustriesThank you very much indeed, Dr Huq. Many of us here attended yesterday’s day of action for the travel industry. Fine people from all over Britain were there. They do not want a…24 Jun 2021HANSARD Covid-19: International TravelIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Fovargue, and to follow the excellent speech by the hon. Member for Don Valley (Nick Fletcher). I thank all those who have…24 May 2021HANSARD Offshore Wind Farms: Unexploded OrdnanceIt is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I congratulate the hon. Member for Ochil and South Perthshire (John Nicolson) on securing this very important…17 Mar 2021HANSARDCycling and WalkingMany local authorities, including Conservative-run Devon and Labour-run Exeter, are working very well together to deliver on the Government’s vision. What will the Minister do…11 Mar 2021HANSARDCycling and WalkingWhat steps the Government are taking to help local authorities increase levels of cycling and walking.11 Mar 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWith covid rates in Devon now down to just 31 per 100,000 and with all the vulnerable groups due to have been vaccinated by the end of this month, what will be the justification…02 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Road MapForgive me, Madam Deputy Speaker, I did not hear the Prime Minister’s reply just then because one of the Zoom operators was talking to another Member. The Prime Minister is…22 Feb 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWhat exactly is the Secretary of State’s exit strategy from this quarantine policy? Is he, for example, planning airport testing, GPS tracking and covid passports, like other…09 Feb 2021HANSARDUK Shellfish ExportsOur superb west country shellfish sector faces ruin because of the Government’s botched Brexit deal. The Secretary of State has said repeatedly that he does not want to water down…08 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWhy does it not make sense for teachers and other essential frontline workers to be vaccinated before perfectly fit and healthy people—like us, Madam Deputy Speaker—in their 60s?02 Feb 2021HANSARD Russian Federation: Human RightsIs not the reason that the Government have failed to implement a single recommendation of the now 15-month-old Russia report and have failed to apply Magnitsky sanctions to the…27 Jan 2021HANSARDEngagementsWhen the Prime Minister told fishermen in the south-west that they would not face new export barriers or unnecessary form-filling, and when he told Britain’s musicians and artists…20 Jan 2021HANSARDUK Musicians: EU Visa ArrangementsThe Minister and Conservative MPs keep claiming that they made this fantastic offer, but we cannot test that because they have not published it. The EU has. It is there in black…19 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19If, as reports suggest, the Government intend requiring people arriving in the UK to have a negative PCR test within 72 hours of their arrival, how will British people currently…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWith cases in Devon down to 71 per 100,000 and falling, and covid hospital admissions also falling, will the only reason that Devon does not go into tier 1 this week be the…14 Dec 2020HANSARD EU Withdrawal AgreementWill the right hon. Gentleman correct his claim on this morning’s “Today” programme that, in the event of no deal, we will continue to benefit from free healthcare if we visit the…09 Dec 2020HANSARD EU Withdrawal AgreementAbsolutely outrageous.09 Dec 2020HANSARDUK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations and Transition PeriodThose assurances were flatly contradicted only last week by the head of the UK’s pharmaceutical industry, Richard Torbett, who said that border delays and, crucially, the absence…07 Dec 2020HANSARDCoronavirus VaccineThe Secretary of State will know that there was much disappointment in Devon that we were put in tier 2, although our rates are only 80 per 100,000 and coming down. Can he spell…02 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateBecause of the growing number of covid patients being treated in hospital, my local NHS would like to use the Exeter Nightingale hospital for in-patient care, but it does not…10 Nov 2020