National Health Service

Thank you for that point of order, Sir Christopher. The Minister is on her feet and she looks as ...

Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I was indeed intending to come to that point. I was comme...

Will the Minister give way?

If my hon. Friend will let me, I will cover his exact point.

I know that some hon. Members ...

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. It states in the explanatory notes:

“A full Impact ...

That is not a point of order for me, but it could have been an intervention upon the Minister, so...

As I said, the impact assessment is being worked on. That is the current situation. I was explain...

Will the Minister give way on that point?

In one moment. One thing I can share is evidence that we have on how this kind of policy is worki...

If my hon. Friends would allow to make a little more progress, I will absolutely take more interv...

rose—

I may well answer many of my hon. Friends’ questions as I proceed, so I ask my right hon. Friend ...

Will the Minister give way?

In one moment. Vaccination teams have made multiple visits to care homes since then and as a resu...

I will take an intervention from my right hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper).<...

I come back to the point about the impact assessment. The document prepared for the House says th...

During the course of this speech, I will share as much information as I can with my right hon. Fr...

The Minister will appreciate that the provisions before us extend well beyond the care home staff...

My right hon. Friend asks an important question about how things would work in practice, although...

I want to help the Minister. We are having to make a decision this evening on the balance of risk...

We live in an uncertain world, but we know that covid is a killer for people living in care homes...

Will the Minister give way?

Will the Minister give way?

I will make some progress. As the Prime Minister and our chief medical officer have said, even wh...

Will the Minister give way on that point?

We must ask ourselves: what more can we do to protect those who will be most vulnerable?

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. To assist the debate, there is a discrepancy between the ...

Again, this is not a matter for the Chair, but it is certainly a point for the Minister to addres...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. There is not a great deal more that I can say on that point. As I h...

Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Yesterday, I asked the House of Commons Librar...

Again, I can only say what I have heard during the debate and apparently the impact assessment is...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker.

The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies recommends that...

The Minister mentions feedback, but the draft explanatory memorandum states that

“a majorit...

We have reviewed the huge number of responses to the consultation. Not everybody who responded su...

Will the Minister give way?

I may pre-empt my hon. Friend’s point. I know that hon. Friends have asked why the Government nee...

If we take a vote tonight, it will set a trend, set down a marker and point the direction not jus...

The hon. Member is right: I know that other parts of the United Kingdom are watching what we are ...

Will the Minister give way on that point?

I will proceed, and I may answer my hon. Friend’s question as I go.

We listened to the resp...

Can the Minister explain why the draft regulations do not distinguish between those workers who a...

My hon. Friend asks a reasonable question. We consulted on exactly that point. There are two reas...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. On making sure there is equity, where does she beli...

My hon. Friend makes a really important point. Throughout the pandemic, the Government and I have...

I will sum up, as I know other colleagues wish to makes speeches.

I put on record my sincer...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I seek your advice on whether the vaccination figures ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point of order. Obviously, I cannot comment on figures the Mi...

Since the start of the pandemic, our lives have all been deeply affected. Our key workers have ex...

I am really grateful for the speech that my hon. Friend is making and obviously pass on my condol...

It is almost as though my hon. Friend has read the rest of my speech. I could not agree more.

I hear what the hon. Lady is saying. My first instinct on persuasion, months and months ago, was ...

My response is that the Government have not gone far enough to have these conversations. A real e...

I am going to make progress, thank you.

These measures will disproportionately punish group...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I am going to make progress, please.

The UK Government should learn from the fantastic work...

This debate finishes at 7.19 pm and I need to bring the Minister in at the end. That means that i...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Tooting (Dr Allin-Khan). I am delighted that the O...

I do not usually speak in the debates about statutory instruments on covid regulations as they ap...

I do not often say this, but it is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Central Ayrshir...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that in some cases, seeming to threaten people will only worsen t...

I agree with my hon. Friend, and that is why I think these proposals are mistaken. Let me just st...

My right hon. Friend is making a fantastic argument, as he always does in this place. I have inte...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for bringing that information to the attention of the House.

I can guarantee that everybody will get in: there is a five-minute limit.

6.47 pm

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper), and I pretty muc...

I agree with much of what the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) has said. I shall begin,...

We heard from the Minister about the 99% vaccination uptake where an employer had mandated it the...

I agree with my hon. Friend. There are perfectly rational arrangements that could allow particula...

I remind Dr Evans that I will interrupt him briefly at 7 o’clock to put the motion on deferred Di...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I look forward to that, as it will give me time to catch my breath....

So there is a duty of care, and duty of care is a running theme. Currently, there is no law to sa...

Of course my hon. Friend is an expert in these matters, but he has conceded that, in the cases he...

My hon. Friend has pre-empted the rest of my speech, in which I will hopefully try to address som...

Order. Sorry, we have to leave it there. Four minutes each. I call Dr Ben Spencer.

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