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HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsI said this at the Dispatch Box before recess. Actually, the Secretary of State took to the World Health Organisation a plea to the rest of the world that people in trials should…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her opening words and for urging those who have not had a vaccine to come forward and be protected. She asked a number of important questions…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsYes.08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsAbsolutely, we will issue clear guidance about venues. Nightclubs are a particular concern when it comes to evidence from other countries of super-spreader events, but,…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsWe will set out in detail in due course exactly how the vaccine pass will work for domestic use: for example, in nightclubs.08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsIf the hon. Lady will forgive me, I wish to reiterate that what she said is inaccurate in the sense of the vaccines not preventing infection. Sixty per cent. of people who are…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsI am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s excellent question. I am very proud, as are the Ministers from the devolved Administrations, of the work we have done collectively on the…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsI am grateful for the right hon. Gentleman’s questions and I will attempt to address them. I will begin by saying to the House that no one in this Government, and certainly not…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsThe very strong advice from the chief medical officers—we have heard from our colleagues in Scotland, too—is that this will be an important mitigating measure. It is something we…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsOur vaccination programme has given this nation a wall of protection against this deadly virus. Data from Public Health England estimates that two doses of a covid-19 vaccine…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his excellent citation of the vaccine success in Scotland. NHS Scotland has done a tremendous job, as has the NHS in Wales, Northern…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsI hope that when my hon. Friend pauses and reflects on what we will be bringing forward, she will see that it is that it is much better for the nightclub industry to be able to…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsMy right hon. Friend asks an important question. When I or a Minister from the Cabinet Office stands at the Dispatch Box and shares the detail of the implementation, we will…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has made his view clear to me on many occasions. It pains me to have to take a step like this, which we do not take lightly, but the flipside…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsI have said that there will be parliamentary scrutiny around this, and we will be coming back and setting out in detail what that looks like.08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s championing of the vaccination programme. He raises an important point. One of the issues around lateral flow tests is the risk of people…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid Vaccine PassportsI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s work. He has been a champion of the vaccination programme and I am grateful to Medicare Pharmacy. We continue to have pop-ups at universities…08 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateWith permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will update the House on covid-19 and our vaccination programme. Earlier this summer, we took the fourth step on our road map. We were…06 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateAs ever, whatever the clinical decision from the JCVI, the NHS will be ready. We will proceed with the same sense of urgency we have had at every point in this campaign. Vaccines…06 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am grateful to the right hon. Member for his support and his words on the vaccination of pregnant women and the protection that the vaccine offers them. On the right hon.…06 Sept 2021