Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Entry to Venues and Events) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his informed and helpful introduction, coming as he does from ...

My Lords, some of us may remember a propaganda campaign during World War II—if people are old eno...

My Lords, here we are, rather surreally, at a debate about regulations that were passed so many w...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for introducing these regulations and welcome the opportu...

My noble friend might recollect that the midwife of the National Health Service was a Welshman: A...

I have great pleasure in acknowledging that—where else could such an innovator and leader have co...

My Lords, the next speaker is taking part remotely; I call the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton.

My Lords, first, I pay tribute to the NHS—not just to our hospitals but to GPs, upon whom a very ...

I thank all noble Lords who took part in this debate and for the continued scrutiny to which they...

No, there is no time limit, but let us not go mad.

The Government believe that the measures we are debating today are balanced and proportionate res...

That is so important. The point that I made was about lumping everybody together. That is what I ...

I take the noble Baroness’s point that not everyone who is against vaccines is unvaccinated or an...

The Minister rightly emphasised the continued need to get tested, as did the Prime Minister in th...

All I can say to the noble Baroness at this stage is that I, too, heard the rumour today that som...

On a point of clarification, I did not say that we should not continue testing; I said that there...

I thank my noble friend for the clarification, but I suspect that the debate will continue, and t...