Public Health

It is absolutely right for hon. Members to consult relevant documents that may contain informatio...

He could have been reading his horoscope —come on!

I can assure my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison) that his futu...

I know that a lot of Members want to speak, particularly on the Government Benches, and so I will...

The leaders of every single faith community have now written to the Government asking for the evi...

On the question of whether all faiths have done their level best to comply, I do agree. A huge am...

The right hon. and learned Gentleman is making some very important points. Does he accept that, f...

I do agree that it should be reviewed as soon as possible. I think that is probably a shared sent...

The right hon. and learned Gentleman is talking about my constituency. I gently point out to him ...

Let me help people. A few Members have now intervened a couple of times. We want to get everybody...

I have looked at the Leicester figures frequently; they do go up and down, but Leicester has neve...

Is not the right hon. and learned Gentleman confounding his own logic? He has spent the past seve...

The lower the rate of infection and the lower the admissions, the more chance there is to get the...

I say to Members that we are going to start with a four-minute limit, starting with Theresa May.<...

May I first say that I do not envy my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the Government the...

Congratulations on your anniversary, Mr Speaker.

We in the SNP are not unused to the Prime ...

I agree with what the hon. Member for Glasgow North (Patrick Grady) said in giving thanks and rec...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I give way—to a wrestler?

I am not a wrestler, but I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way on the issue of ...

I hope the Secretary of State for Health will pass that on to other people to see if provision ca...

I will not be supporting the Government’s regulations in the Lobby later this afternoon.

Th...

I rise in sadness, because I simply have to say to the Government that I cannot support them toda...

I wish to set out my concerns about the regulations, primarily because I believe that economic pa...

May I start by apologising for reading a newspaper during the Prime Minister’s contribution? Mr S...

I have been feeling quite emotional today, not just because of the news that is coming from the U...

For weeks and months now, businesses across Greater Manchester and our communities have been subj...

We were told that the reason for the first national lockdown was to give time to build capacity i...

The Government have repeatedly failed to listen to the voices of people on the frontline in this ...

We are being asked today to take away the fundamental freedoms of nearly 68 million people in thi...

Can I just put on record that it is probably only thanks to my hon. Friend that we are having thi...

My hon. Friend is too kind, but I am grateful to him.

I fully accept the sincerity of the P...

Given the near crisis point in the capacity and the ability of the NHS to cope with rising cases ...

It is lovely to see you in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Our freedoms are like the air w...

It is a pleasure to be able to contribute this afternoon.

We undoubtedly face a very diffic...

Prior to this debate, I was contacted by many constituents with their opinions on how to vote tod...

Like many hon. Members, I would like to start by paying tribute to all the British public, includ...

Order. I will be moving straight to the right hon. Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper), but aft...

I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. You will have understood from my intervention on the Prime M...

My communities in South Cumbria, in the lakes and the dales, are arguably the worst hit on both c...

Thirty-four years ago, as an otherwise fit and healthy 24-year-old, I was carried out of my home ...

I fully understand the lure of the precautionary principle, given the dreadful scenarios that the...

Has the hon. Gentleman received, as I have, a letter signed by 1,500 managers of church organisat...

An overwhelming number of the responses that I have had are from churchgoers, and I will develop ...

Order. I just want to point out gently that not everybody is going to get in on this debate. If i...

If we are going to defeat this virus, the public have to have confidence in the Government. They ...

This, of course, is the eventuality that we all had hoped to avoid. I hate even contemplating a c...

In Huntingdonshire, as of last Friday, we had a very low and stable figure of 58 cases per 100,00...

There are three questions here. How did we get into this situation? What do we do about it now? H...

As the Prime Minister said earlier, none of us wants this. Pitting lives against livelihoods and,...

When we entered lockdown in March, none of us could be sure how long the measures would be necess...

When looking at this issue and my vote this evening, I look at the evidence and ask myself three ...

The decision facing us today has big implications for how we will recover from this pandemic and ...

I do not know whether it is with pleasure or huge difficulty that I follow the powerful speeches ...

There have been many powerful contributions, not least by my hon. Friend the Member for Wealden (...

These are extreme measures for extreme times. I think I agreed with every word of my hon. Friends...

Forty-eight hours ago, I came to the House and asked the Government to sharpen the axe with regar...

It is a profound moment in which we are being asked knowingly to restrict the civil liberties of ...

It is with a heavy heart that I stand today to support the Government’s proposals for a national ...

Members have spoken with sincerity and eloquence this afternoon, and it is clear that the House w...

The measures that we have just debated are indeed extraordinary; they are in response to an extra...

The Prime Minister very honestly said to me on Monday that one of the lessons from the end of the...

We have to constantly improve on that. First, the number of people being contacted and who are is...

Order. Hon. Members, apart from those on the Front Bench, should leave the Chamber by the doors b...