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HANSARDEngagementsI take it that the answer is the Prime Minister has no idea whether the 50,000 customs agents will be in place on 1 January. He either does not know or he does not care. The Prime…09 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsWhen I abstain, I come to the House and explain. When the Prime Minister abstains, he runs away to Afghanistan and gives the taxpayer a £20,000 bill. On the question of jobs,…02 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsMay I also urge the Prime Minister, once the Government have a communications plan for the vaccine, to share it with the House so that we can all say the same thing in the same…02 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsMay I join the Prime Minister in his comments on disabled people? Like the Prime Minister, can I start with the fantastic news about the licensing of a vaccine? This pandemic has…02 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsI pay tribute to everybody who has got us this far, and we will work with all of them to get us where we need to go next. This has to be something that we all pull together to…02 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsMay I press the Prime Minister a bit further about the plan for care homes? I do so because we all want this to work. The top category is residents in care homes, and this will…02 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister has referenced the priorities for the first phase, and as he said, the top two priority groups are residents in care homes for older adults and their carers,…02 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI do agree, and their cry still has not been heard. I accept that in the process of putting together a support package in a hurry back in March, there may have been reasons why…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI will come to that. I have accepted the case for restrictions—we were very clear about the need for a circuit break; we are clear that we need to go into restrictions—but we need…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthTier 2, crucially, depends on all other factors falling into place at exactly the same time. Although we all welcome the chance to see our loved ones at Christmas, I am not…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthMay I start by welcoming the fall in infection numbers, with a drop in the number of people being admitted to hospital, and, crucially, the fact that the national R rate is now…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI am grateful for that intervention and I am setting out exactly why not—and I will take interventions along the way so that what I say can be challenged—but the first point,…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthThis isn’t hindsight; I am telling you what is going to happen in two weeks. We know where we will be in two weeks. I have no doubt that there will be Government Members getting…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthWe accept the case for restrictions. We want a plan that is going to work, we are on plan 5 and this one is full of holes; we have been there so many times. So many times the…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI will just make some progress, and then I will come back to my hon. Friend. I also fear that without the right health measures in place—in particular, a working trace and isolate…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI do agree, and I will come on to business support in a minute, but let me make the points in support of the case we make today. The first point is this: we have been here before.…01 Dec 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe reality is that any other Prime Minister would have fired the Home Secretary and any other Home Secretary would have resigned, so I think we will chalk that up as one broken…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsThank you, Mr Speaker. The difference, of course, is that I am tackling the issues in my party and the Prime Minister is running away from the issues in his. I take it from his…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI did not really hear an answer there, so why don’t we go through these commitments in turn, starting with bullying and harassment? The now former independent adviser on…25 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsToday is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and girls. On average, a woman is killed by a man every three days in this country. It is a shocking…25 Nov 2020