Coronavirus

With this we shall discuss the following:

Motion 3—Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporar...

Over the past year, we have all been engaged in a monumental national effort to fight coronavirus...

On that point about the take-up and the efficacy, one thing that the chief medical officer said w...

While modelling is obviously something that is looked at, the observation of the actual data is I...

To come back very briefly on that final point, if deaths and hospitalisations are what is importa...

I have not seen that article in The Times—I have read parts of The Times, but not that bit—so I c...

The Health Secretary has talked of protections for the over-60s. Can he appreciate why, for some ...

I am not quite sure what point the hon. Member is making, but this is what I was going on to say....

My right hon. Friend mentions data on occurrences within the NHS. Does the NHS have data to sugge...

Yes, the data on the impact of the vaccine—including side effects from the vaccine and the rare o...

My right hon. Friend answered a question from me on this very subject by saying that the data was...

This data has been collated recently; it is in the so-called SIREN study from Public Health Engla...

My constituents have been in touch to raise concerns about these measures being in place for long...

We clearly want to lift these measures as soon as is reasonably possible. My goal is that we will...

I just want to answer my hon. Friend’s second point before taking further interventions. His poin...

My right hon. Friend mentions the fact that we live with flu every winter and act against it. Has...

It is very difficult to know in advance. At the peak of this pandemic, we had 38,000 patients in ...

What my right hon. Friend has just said is extremely encouraging, and I am very grateful. Will he...

Yes—that is a very good way of putting it; in fact, it was on the next page of my script. It is a...

No comment.

I am an optimist, as I just said.

Let me carry on detailing the purpose of these measures. ...

The word “crucial” has been doing a lot of heavy lifting in the Minister’s speech. Is it not corr...

Absolutely. The main provisions under which we put in place the lockdown come from the Public Hea...

I welcome the expiry of some measures, particularly the social care easements, which were discrim...

Furlough is provided for under the Act. As I just said, it is a permanent provision of the Act, b...

The Secretary of State is asking for a further six months under the Act, which is all that we can...

That is a good question. The truth is that we have a record number of nurses in the NHS, over 300...

Further to that point, may I make a suggestion to my right hon. Friend? The expansion of the avai...

Yes, that is an important point. We have just started the process of working on that. If measures...

I am grateful for the Secretary of State’s judgment and I will try not to test his patience again...

I actually agree with my right hon. Friend that they should be expired at the earliest possible o...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I will just make a little more progress.

We are also suspending three further provisions, a...

On a specific point, which I rather hoped the Secretary of State would cover but I anticipate wil...

All these questions will be answered as part of the work of the global travel taskforce, which th...

I appreciate the Secretary of State allowing me to intervene on him at the end of his speech.

I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman just said. I am very sorry—although I completely unders...

I understand why we should want to deal with somebody who is infectious and refusing to isolate, ...

The hon. Gentleman might know that I have proposed a new public health Act that would use statuto...

The hon. Gentleman invites me to offer endorsement before I have read the details—he is a canny o...

My hon. Friend is giving us an interesting insight into the history of the epidemic in this count...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right: we need a public inquiry. Mistakes have been made. There have...

The four-minute limit will now be on for Back-Bench speeches.

2.20 pm

It has certainly been a challenging time for my constituents in North Herefordshire, but their fo...

It is hard to believe that it is a year since the four nations officially went into lockdown. I w...

As sure as eggs are eggs, we will be back here in six months, at the end of September, being aske...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Sir Charles Walker).

On 7 March ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Blackley and Broughton (Graham Stringer).

I ...

A year ago, the House gave the Government unprecedented powers to curtail and limit economic acti...

What an extraordinary thing! This evening, I imagine I will find myself in the Lobby with the rig...

Renewing the Coronavirus Act 2020 is about extra powers for Ministers—powers that have serious im...

This debate is not about the Government’s response to covid-19 so far, but about what we do next....

One year ago, the Government’s Coronavirus Act was passed to address an unfolding emergency in th...

The habit of inhumane policy soon trickles down to the servants of the state. This morning, a con...

The Member who was No. 14 on the call list has withdrawn, so we go to Sir Bernard Jenkin.

3...

I suppose I have an opportunity to reply to my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest West (...

I read with great care my hon. Friend’s article on ConservativeHome this morning. He refers to th...

I am perfectly prepared to accept that it is a worst-case scenario, but we are dealing with proje...

I need to point out that, if Members take interventions, it would be helpful for them to stick to...

I will vote against the Act today. The Government’s response has been one of the worst in the wor...

I welcome motion 5 in the name of the Leader of the House. It is high time that the House of Comm...

I would like to associate myself with the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow an...

A year after the lockdown, may I begin by thanking people in my constituency? Of course, I thank ...

This week marks one year since the first UK lockdown. My thoughts and prayers this week are with ...

I refer to the declarations that I have made relating to support for the Covid Recovery Group. Th...

If there is a vote tonight, I shall vote no because of concerns that the Government are still foc...

I think in our constituencies there is a real fear that the road map and the extension of the Cor...

The reality is that if the Government were defeated tonight, they would recall Parliament and put...

If the right hon. Gentleman will allow me, I want to focus this evening on the key messages that ...

We could scarcely have imagined that, a whole year after a strange virus that we knew very little...

Let me deal with the two fundamental choices that we face today. The first is on the Government’s...

I am pleased that some provisions are being removed from the Coronavirus Act. It is important to ...

Let me start by congratulating the Government on the remarkable success of the vaccination progra...

As my hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) said a moment ago, Liberal Democrats ...

I open up by wishing everyone well on what has been a rather unhappy first anniversary of covid l...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bolton West (Chris Green), who posited many ...

I am no stranger to the right hon. Member. I am confident that it will be even worse than he imag...

Indeed. I do not think the hon. Gentleman was in the House in 2006, when Labour tried to introduc...

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate, and delighted to follow the wise words...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale West (Sir Graham Bra...

After Greg Clark’s four-minute contribution, there are seven Members left to speak. To get everyb...

My hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) mentioned the evidence to the ...

Three-minute limit.

4.23 pm

This pandemic has put a great strain on our society and our economy, but it has also shown the st...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Meon Valley (Mrs Drummond).

I will...

I think the day when all the regulations under the Coronavirus Act are lifted will be my highligh...

This past year has been incredibly difficult for all of us, and I would like to start by paying t...

My hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Dr Spencer) was clear about the desire of ...

It is always a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (Da...

It is a pleasure to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caro...

This is a solemn moment. In the week when we mark the anniversary of our first lockdown and of th...

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. You will be well aware that I was not able to vote in las...

The shadow Minister will have heard the comments, and I am sure he would want to respond himself....

I apologise to the hon. Gentleman. I am wrong there, and I would like the record corrected.