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HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesWhat I can tell the hon. Lady is that, certainly in the Treasury, we look at how different groups are being impacted to make sure that we target help on those who are most…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesMy hon. Friend asks a very important question, and he is absolutely right. We know that the virus targets different groups differently, but we do not necessarily have all the…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesI can. We must stress that there is light at the end of the tunnel, and as the vaccine roll-out continues, I urge everyone who is offered one to take the opportunity to protect…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesYes, I can assure my hon. Friend of that. It is what I said in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Burton (Kate Griffiths), and I can reiterate it again now. What I would…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesI thank the right hon. Lady for her question. I wish that she had actually read my reports, because she would have seen that I addressed that not just in the October report, but…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesI thank my hon. Friend for the question, and for the opportunity to reiterate what I said to the hon. Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova). Of course racism exists; no one in…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I add my thanks to the Aylesbury mosque for its vital work in promoting vaccine uptake. Working with religious leaders and other respected…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesI thank the hon. and learned Lady for her question. Inequality of policing outcomes, I am afraid, is outside the remit of this report. We are looking purely from a health…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesYes, I can confirm that to my hon. Friend. The Government are looking at the most vulnerable and those who need our protection, not just in the context of covid-19, but more…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesWe are ensuring that public health messages are accessible, and are published in a large number of media that ethnic minorities read, watch and listen to. That will be critical in…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesI thank the hon. Gentleman for raising that matter. It is important. A lot of what we do is focused on NHS England, but I can assure him that we work with partners across all the…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesI thank the hon. Lady for that question. I recall having this discussion just before October, in relation to my previous report. I specifically raised with DHSC colleagues the…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesI think it is a really interesting question that the hon. Lady has asked. She says that I dismissed the claim that systemic injustice was to blame, but the fact is that we did not…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We in this House must recognise that we have positions of responsibility. I think I have said before at this Dispatch Box that while it might…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesOur methodology drew on a wide range of data sources, including long-term data from the DHSC and Public Health England on covid-19 incidence, data on social integration, and…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesOn Friday, I published my second quarterly report summarising the progress the Government have made in understanding and tackling covid-19 disparities experienced by ethnic…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesI thank the hon. Lady for her question. I know that Health Ministers are taking this issue seriously; it is something that cuts across our briefs. I have taken a particular…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesYes. The Government are following the recommendations of the independent experts at the JCVI on which groups to prioritise for covid-19 vaccines. Following its updated advice, to…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesI thank the hon. Lady for her questions, and I will try to address each of them. She mentioned what the Government are doing to assist south Asian groups, where the numbers and…01 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Ethnic Minority DisparitiesI believe that we have answered this question before; if memory serves me correctly, I think I have written to the hon. Lady on this subject. It is something that the Commission…01 Mar 2021