Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions) (No. 3)

I thank my right hon. Friend for the scrutiny that he has provided of the Coronavirus Act 2020 th...

I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way and apologise to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, because I am...

During the pandemic, my right hon. Friend has done a fantastic job of drawing everyone’s attentio...

The Secretary of State says that this House has had time to scrutinise the legislation, but 90 mi...

The hon. Lady is right to point to the importance of scrutiny. Of course, it is not just the time...

No one disputes the success that some of these measures have had but there is a strong resentment...

I understand my right hon. Friend’s concerns and, rightly, many people across the House share tho...

The Secretary of State was not originally responsible for this. The issue that my right hon. Frie...

Like my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset (Dr Fox), my right hon. Friend the Member...

The Act has always been presented on the Floor of the House as an all-or-nothing Bill; MPs never ...

Unintentionally misleading?

Unintentionally misleading.

Thank you for that intervention, Mr Deputy Speaker. I think that I have been very clear not only ...

I think the problem for the Secretary of State is how the Government acted in the past by not bri...

First, may I wish my hon. Friend a very happy birthday? He makes an important point in his valuab...

A lot of us feel that this legislation should now just lapse, because there has been a material i...

What I can tell my right hon. Friend is that there are provisions that we hope to keep in the Act...

Does my right hon. Friend recognise that by leaving the Act intact, albeit with certain restricti...

In our response to the pandemic, we have set out clearly our plan for the autumn and winter; I ha...

Would my right hon. Friend go a little further? As a medical support worker, I can tell him that ...

My right hon. Friend is right to draw attention to that point. We need to keep working on it, but...

The Secretary of State has been extolling the virtues of parliamentary scrutiny, which, as many r...

I think that the Government have already been clear that should we try to bring forward what the ...

I welcome the lifting of the more draconian measures in the Coronavirus Act, including section 52...

I thank the hon. Lady for what she has said, but I think the Government have already set out clea...

Will my right hon. Friend explain in detail which of the measures that the Government seek to ret...

My hon. Friend will know that there are numerous measures that the Government are planning to ret...

rose—

I think I have given the hon. Lady enough opportunities to intervene.

We have come so far a...

We do not oppose the renewal of the Act and we will not oppose its renewal in the Division Lobby,...

The right hon. Gentleman is making a powerful argument. Given what he has said, would it not be a...

The hon. Gentleman tempts me. I can understand that if the Act fell, there would be time for alte...

I always listen to the right hon. Gentleman’s comments with the greatest of interest. He is conce...

The right hon. Gentleman is better than that, with respect. He is very experienced, and he knows ...

I have a great deal of sympathy with what the right hon. Gentleman has just said, but there is an...

The hon. Gentleman knows full well that if the Government wanted to bring forward a separate Bill...

There is a limited amount of time for this debate, which needs to finish at 4.31 pm, and I want t...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will, of course, obey your strictures on time.

I welcome...

May I ask my right hon. Friend to hesitate in his laudatory comments about the Opposition Front B...

That is exactly right. It is for that reason that if there were a Division I would not be voting ...

Would it not also help the Government’s case if they gave us more detail on which of these measur...

My right hon. Friend makes a good point, which would be worth following up.

Conscious of yo...

I had a profound sense of déjà vu in preparing for today’s debate, although it is hard to believe...

When the hon. Gentleman says vaccination, I hope he also means vaccination against seasonal flu, ...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his comments, and I do indeed agree. I wonder whether he has...

Scotland and Wales have national ID cards, and if plan B is triggered in England, there is a poss...

I should point that they are not ID cards but vaccine certificates. As I have said, we respect th...

On the hon. Gentleman’s stricture about the mask mandate— the requirement on which he wishes us t...

I am an enthusiastic mask wearer for one simple reason that I think helps us all: it sends a very...

In order to be helpful, I will impose a five-minute limit. If colleagues take less than that, we ...

We are in a profoundly different place from where we were 19 months ago when we entered the pande...

Order. We need to move on.

3.56 pm

Today really feels like groundhog day. The Government are again pushing through the Coronavirus A...

I am going to reduce the limit to four minutes but it should stay at four minutes if I do it now....

I agree with every word of what the hon. Member for Brent Central (Dawn Butler) said. She made th...

I agree with the comments of the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) and the ...

I refer to the declarations I have made relating to the Covid Recovery Group. When we rammed this...

We need to have a frank and honest discussion about where we are on covid. It is now clear that t...

I begin by expressing my gratitude to all the healthcare workers in my constituency and across th...

I will be very quick. I am not sure where I stand on vaccine passports, but I do know where I sta...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for making that point, which I was not aware of until now, but I am ce...

It is a pleasure to be closing this debate, and I thank hon. Members from all across the House fo...

May I invite my hon. Friend to remind the House and the country that the instincts of the Governm...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. The Government were acting in very difficult times ...

I rise to repeat the point I made to the hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Neale Hanvey)...

I reassure my right hon. Friend that there are ongoing talks across all the devolved nations and ...

Will my hon. Friend also scrutinise the Bill, as a number of colleagues have mentioned this after...

Of course we keep every aspect of the Act under review and will continue to do so.

Members ...

Before my hon. Friend moves on, may I press her a little further? She rightly says that the Gover...

Covid certification will be brought in under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, whi...

Does my hon. Friend share my constituents’ perplexity and confusion that the Government think it ...

I reiterate that we are consulting at the moment for the NHS and other social care settings, and ...

I wonder whether the Minister will also consider the fines under the Public Health (Control of Di...

I will take the hon. Lady’s comments on board. The progress that has been made with regard to unl...

The question is Motion No. 4 as on the Order Paper. As many as are of that opinion, say Aye. [Hon...

No!

I am afraid I fear the mood of the House is not to have a vote. The right hon. Gentleman would ha...

The just shall live by faith.

I am sure they will. The Ayes have it.

Question put and agreed to.

Resolved,

Th...