Covid-19: Update

My Lords, I am enormously grateful to both the noble Baronesses, Lady Brinton and Lady Thornton, ...

My Lords, we now come to the 30 minutes for Back-Bench questions. I ask that noble Lords keep the...

What plans are being put in place for flu and Covid vaccine booster shots for the winter?

I am extremely grateful for that perceptive question. We are looking, at this very moment, at our...

My Lords, India being placed on the red list will cause real hardship to many UK citizens with cl...

My Lords, our thoughts are with the people of India at a time when they are fighting the disease ...

I am sure the Minister knows that those from deprived communities are more likely to catch Covid-...

The right reverend Prelate hits the nail on the head. It is extremely sad, frustrating and hard t...

My Lords, 4.7 million people in England are waiting for routine operations and procedures. Some 3...

The noble Lord is right that the backlog is a grave issue, and we are fighting as hard as we can ...

My Lords, overwhelming evidence now exists that lower-paid people are less likely to take a test,...

My Lords, we put in place a considerable amount of support for those on low wages, including the ...

My Lords, I join other noble Lords in thanking my noble friend the Minister for just how hard he ...

My Lords, all the major vaccine companies are already looking at tweaking their existing vaccines...

I can confirm what the Minister said about other services in the NHS. The staff at the Macmillan ...

My Lords, I join the noble Lord in commending the people who work at Macmillan and all the other ...

My Lords, I welcome the Government’s consultation on whether vaccines should be required for care...

My Lords, the vaccine is typically seen as personal medical hygiene. I am not sure if arrangement...

My Lords, one of the very few positives to come out of the pandemic is that the spotlight has sho...

My noble friend is entirely right: life sciences is a huge national strength. It was a quiet indu...

My Lords, will my noble friend the Minister tell me what plans are in place to monitor the work b...

My noble friend is right: the people of Leicester have done a terrific job at getting the rate do...

My Lords, last week, the Prime Minister said that the lockdown has been doing

“the bulk of ...

My noble friend is quite wrong if he is seeking to imply that there is any doubt about lockdowns ...

My Lords, I join the Minister in thanking all those involved in the vaccination programme. I was ...

My Lords, the Cabinet Office is reviewing whether Covid status certification could play a role in...

My Lords, my noble friend knows that I have repeatedly raised the subject of care home workers. I...

My Lords, I hear the message from my noble friend loud and clear. Vaccination rates among care ho...

My Lords, as the Minister will know, I have been a little doubtful about the amount of effort tha...

My Lords, I completely recognise my noble friend’s concerns, but I reassure him that surgeries si...

My Lords, in addition to the great success of the vaccination campaign, at last it is now accepte...

My Lords, the post-mortem is not fully written. When it is, the causes of our relatively high mor...