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HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) Billrose—30 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19: VaccinationI am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David, and to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Elliot Colburn) and the hon. Member for…14 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19: VaccinationMy constituency is Wycombe, by the way. I agree with the hon. Lady on this point. If people make a choice about their own person that increases their own personal risk and then…14 Dec 2020HANSARD Covid-19: VaccinationI am honoured by the hon. Member’s words, and am very grateful.14 Dec 2020HANSARD Nurseries and Early Years SettingsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Winchester (Steve Brine) on securing what has been a really…03 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthDoes my right hon. Friend agree that it is not enough for the Government merely to refrain from coercing people—they also have to pay attention to implicit coercion whereby they…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthThis is a dangerous moment in the life of our country. People feel they have been pushed too far, pushed about too much, and pushed too hard; they have suffered too much. We think…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthThat is a very important point, amusing as it is. Those of us who have seen behind the curtain know that my hon. Friend is right not just about the British state but about every…01 Dec 2020HANSARD Public HealthI do agree with my hon. Friend, who is well qualified to say that. The hospital capacity projection from the SPI-M-O medium-term modelling, which was leaked, says that it “takes…01 Dec 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsAt least one school in my constituency is suffering material numbers of pupil absences because the NHS covid app is triggering through walls. Can my right hon. Friend confirm that…23 Nov 2020HANSARDFree Trade Agreement: CanadaI was glad to see the good news on Bloomberg that there is great hope that we will conclude that deal. Does the Secretary of State share my hope that Canada, like Japan, will go…19 Nov 2020HANSARDFree Trade Agreement: CanadaWhat recent progress she has made on concluding a free trade agreement with Canada; and if she will make a statement.19 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthCan I just put on record that it is probably only thanks to my hon. Friend that we are having this debate at all in advance of the measures coming into force?04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthThese are extreme measures for extreme times. I think I agreed with every word spoken by my hon. Friends the Members for Altrincham and Sale West (Sir Graham Brady) and for…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Government Response to Covid-19Sir Charles, I am absolutely delighted that you are in the Chair, and I am sure my right hon. Friend the Minister is glad too. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Government Response to Covid-19I had a meeting earlier, which my hon. Friend knows about, with Sir Jeremy Farrar. One thing that he explained to me is that if schools are left open, that adds 0.3 to 0.4 to R,…03 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19This morning, I chaired a meeting with the psychologist Emma Kenny. She spoke absolutely brilliantly so I shall shamelessly steal and abridge her speech from this morning. She…02 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateMy right hon. Friend will know the basis on which the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 is subject to judicial review. Would he look at the advice given to MPs by Lord…02 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19One of the wonderful things that my right hon. Friend has done is make available so much data. I am looking at the case data for Liverpool, and there it is—daily cases by specimen…02 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19The hon. Lady has done a masterful job of demonstrating mere politics, but has she engaged with the serious subject of experts disagreeing?02 Nov 2020