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Debates on delegated legislation on Thursday, 25 March 2021, in the House of Commons, led by Matt Hancock. The answering member was Jonathan Ashworth.
Motion that the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Steps) (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I., 2021, No. 364), dated 22 March 2021, a copy of which was laid before this House on 22 March, be approved. Debated with motions that the temporary provisions of the Coronavirus Act 2020 should not yet expire, that this House has considered the one-year report on the status on the non-devolved provisions of the Coronavirus Act 2020 and that the Order of 2 June 2020 (Proceedings during the pandemic (No. 2)), as amended on 1 July and 22 October 2020, the Order of 4 June 2020 (Virtual participation in proceedings during the pandemic), as amended on 1 July, 2 September, 22 October and 30 December 2020, the Order of 3 November 2020 (Proxy voting during the pandemic (No. 2)) and the Order of 25 February (Sittings in Westminster Hall during the pandemic) shall have effect until 21 June. Main question agreed to on question.
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Parliamentary proceeding
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691 cc1109-1171 
Session
2019-21
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House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 691 c1109 (Link to this contribution)

We now come to motion 2, on public health, which, with the permission of the House, we will debat...

Matt Hancock | 691 c1109 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Steps) (England) Reg...


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Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 691 c1109 (Link to this contribution)

With this we shall discuss the following:

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

Matt Hancock | 691 cc1109-1110 (Link to this contribution)

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

Mark Harper | 691 c1110 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 cc1110-1 (Link to this contribution)

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

Mark Harper | 691 c1111 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1111 (Link to this contribution)

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

Rupa Huq | 691 c1111 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1111 (Link to this contribution)

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

William Wragg | 691 c1111 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1112 (Link to this contribution)

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

Christopher Chope | 691 c1112 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1112 (Link to this contribution)

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

Richard Holden | 691 c1112 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1113 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1113 (Link to this contribution)

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

Greg Clark | 691 c1113 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1113 (Link to this contribution)

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

Steve Baker | 691 c1113 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1113 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1114 (Link to this contribution)

I am an optimist, as I just said.

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

Dawn Butler | 691 c1114 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 cc1114-5 (Link to this contribution)

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

Munira Wilson | 691 c1115 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1115 (Link to this contribution)

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

Steve Brine | 691 c1115 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1115 (Link to this contribution)

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

Steve Brine | 691 c1116 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1116 (Link to this contribution)

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

Mark Harper | 691 c1116 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1116 (Link to this contribution)

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

Steve Baker | 691 c1117 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Secretary of State give way?

Matt Hancock | 691 c1117 (Link to this contribution)

I will just make a little more progress.

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

Jonathan Ashworth | 691 c1117 (Link to this contribution)

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

Matt Hancock | 691 c1117 (Link to this contribution)

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

Jonathan Ashworth | 691 cc1117-1120 (Link to this contribution)

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

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Steve Baker | 691 c1119 (Link to this contribution)

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

Jonathan Ashworth | 691 c1119 (Link to this contribution)

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

Steve Baker | 691 c1119 (Link to this contribution)

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

Jonathan Ashworth | 691 c1119 (Link to this contribution)

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

Graham Stringer | 691 c1119 (Link to this contribution)

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

Jonathan Ashworth | 691 cc1121-2 (Link to this contribution)

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

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 691 c1122 (Link to this contribution)

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

2.20 pm

Bill Wiggin | 691 cc1122-3 (Link to this contribution)

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

Martyn Day | 691 cc1123-5 (Link to this contribution)

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

Charles Walker | 691 cc1125-6 (Link to this contribution)

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

Graham Stringer | 691 cc1126-7 (Link to this contribution)

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

On 7 March ...

Karen Bradley | 691 cc1127-8 (Link to this contribution)

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

I ...

Jeremy Corbyn | 691 cc1128-9 (Link to this contribution)

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

William Wragg | 691 cc1129-1130 (Link to this contribution)

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

Ed Davey | 691 cc1130-1 (Link to this contribution)

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

Jeremy Wright | 691 cc1131-2 (Link to this contribution)

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

Dawn Butler | 691 cc1132-3 (Link to this contribution)

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

Desmond Swayne | 691 cc1133-4 (Link to this contribution)

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

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 691 c1134 (Link to this contribution)

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

3...

Bernard Jenkin | 691 c1134 (Link to this contribution)

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

Mark Harper | 691 c1134 (Link to this contribution)

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

Bernard Jenkin | 691 cc1134-5 (Link to this contribution)

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

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 691 c1135 (Link to this contribution)

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

Richard Burgon | 691 cc1135-6 (Link to this contribution)

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

Steve Brine | 691 cc1136-7 (Link to this contribution)

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

Owen Thompson | 691 cc1137-8 (Link to this contribution)

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

Liam Fox | 691 cc1138-9 (Link to this contribution)

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

Bell Ribeiro-Addy | 691 cc1139-1140 (Link to this contribution)

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

Steve Baker | 691 cc1140-2 (Link to this contribution)

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

Lord Spellar | 691 cc1142-3 (Link to this contribution)

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

Richard Graham | 691 c1143 (Link to this contribution)

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

Lord Spellar | 691 c1143 (Link to this contribution)

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

Richard Graham | 691 cc1143-4 (Link to this contribution)

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

Munira Wilson | 691 cc1144-5 (Link to this contribution)

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

Mark Harper | 691 cc1145-6 (Link to this contribution)

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

Rachel Hopkins | 691 cc1146-7 (Link to this contribution)

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

Pauline Latham | 691 cc1147-8 (Link to this contribution)

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

Tim Farron | 691 cc1148-9 (Link to this contribution)

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

Chris Green | 691 cc1149-1150 (Link to this contribution)

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

Alistair Carmichael | 691 cc1150-1 (Link to this contribution)

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

Steve Baker | 691 c1151 (Link to this contribution)

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

Alistair Carmichael | 691 cc1151-2 (Link to this contribution)

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

Lord Brady of Altrincham | 691 cc1152-3 (Link to this contribution)

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

Christopher Chope | 691 c1153 (Link to this contribution)

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

Nigel Evans | 691 c1153 (Link to this contribution)

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

Greg Clark | 691 cc1153-4 (Link to this contribution)

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

Flick Drummond | 691 cc1154-5 (Link to this contribution)

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

Bob Seely | 691 cc1155-6 (Link to this contribution)

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

I will...

Tom Randall | 691 cc1156-7 (Link to this contribution)

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

Ben Spencer | 691 cc1157-8 (Link to this contribution)

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

David Simmonds | 691 c1158 (Link to this contribution)

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

Caroline Nokes | 691 cc1158-9 (Link to this contribution)

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

Aaron Bell | 691 cc1159-1160 (Link to this contribution)

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

Alex Norris | 691 cc1160-2 (Link to this contribution)

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

Charles Walker | 691 c1162 (Link to this contribution)

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

Nigel Evans | 691 c1162 (Link to this contribution)

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

Alex Norris | 691 c1162 (Link to this contribution)

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

Lord Brady of Altrincham | 691 c1162 (Link to this contribution)

I am listening carefully to the argument the hon. Gentleman is developing. Is he saying that ther...

Alex Norris | 691 cc1162-3 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for that intervention. That is not my position and I am going to develop that argum...

Edward Argar | 691 cc1163-6 (Link to this contribution)

This House has come together once again to consider coronavirus regulations. The contrast with th...

Nigel Evans | 691 c1180 (Link to this contribution)

I wish all Members a very good and peaceful Easter, as well as all the staff who have worked here...

Jessica Morden | 691 c1171 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. May I seek your guidance on a matter of correcting the re...

Nigel Evans | 691 c1171 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Lady for advance notice of her point of order. As she knows, the Chair is not re...

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