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HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe will be publishing the impact statement today.09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right that parliamentary procedure is vital. As well as publishing the impact assessment before a vote, I can share with the House that we will…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI know the case to which the hon. Lady is referring. We are clear in our decision, which was made for all the right reasons. I hope that she will understand that I am not at…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWhat my right hon. Friend has just said deeply concerns me. Anyone who is 90 years old and homebound should have been contacted—certainly at that age. I am assuming that it has…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Lady is right to point to the high vaccination rates in York, and everyone involved is to be commended. When it comes to other measures that may or may not be taken, I…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI thank my right hon. Friend for his support. On the assessments that we have done, I have shared some information with the House, and there will be an impact statement followed…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI gently say to the hon. Lady that she really should not try to play politics with the story that she is perpetuating about the Prime Minister on a hospital visit yesterday. As…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI can tell the hon. Gentleman that the antiviral drug that he refers to has been approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. We do have that drug, and…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI hope my hon. Friend appreciates that there were a lot of questions. The impact statement will be published today, and the impact assessment will be published before he and other…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to raise the importance of cancer. For all the reasons he set out and more, it has remained an absolute priority of the Government and the…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI agree wholeheartedly. May I take this opportunity to thank my right hon. Friend again for the work that he has done in Government, and particularly in this Department in laying…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Gentleman is right to raise that point. It was a concern in making the decision, and I have set out how I have taken that into account. However, I assure him that the…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI thank my right hon. Friend for his support for today’s announcement. I know that he speaks with huge experience, that he has rightly focused for years on the importance of…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Gentleman will know that masks play an important role in vulnerable settings in healthcare and social care already. He points to a suggestion by some that the…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWith your permission, Mr Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the further steps we are taking to keep this country safe from covid-19. We head into the winter…09 Nov 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his approach to this matter and to issues around vaccination in general. There is no doubt that the general consensus in this House, across…09 Nov 2021HANSARDDavid Fuller CaseI would expect that many of those steps may well be in place in many NHS trusts. The purpose of the NHS writing to all trusts is to ensure that the kinds of steps that I set out…08 Nov 2021HANSARDDavid Fuller CaseI agree very much with my right hon. Friend. He is absolutely right to raise those points. As he said, these appalling crimes have taken place over a number of years. I am certain…08 Nov 2021HANSARDDavid Fuller CaseMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to make those points, and I can give those assurances. The police have informed my Department that all the families of all the victims have been…08 Nov 2021HANSARDDavid Fuller CaseYes, I am very happy to expand on that. The NHS has, first, written directly to all trusts and asked them to look into the issues of mortuary access and other post-mortem…08 Nov 2021