Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation and Linked Households) (England) Regulations 2020

We have a national emergency. The number of people catching the virus is rocketing; the NHS is st...

My Lords, I wish to make two points.

Many, including in this House, question the need for a...

My Lords, my awareness of the situation we are in was heightened last night by an email from the ...

My Lords, we are repeatedly told that we are in a race against time. It is in fact a race against...

My Lords, I will make only two points.

First, if our fellow citizens are being asked to und...

My Lords, as we debate these regulations—after the event, as ever—we are in the throes of a natio...

My Lords, given the grim statistics that the Prime Minister outlined in his address on Monday, I ...

My Lords, I am pleased to contribute to this debate and I hope that it will result in further cla...

My Lords, I had the privilege of sitting on the Select Committee that looked at the virus. The co...

My Lords, I am in isolation due to a contact of mine testing positive. I want to ask six question...

My Lords, last year, we discovered that pandemic planning was inadequate. It was based too much o...

My Lords, I too appreciate the seriousness of the situation and how difficult it is for people ac...

My Lords, as we enter the epic phase of vaccine versus virus, the exemptions in these regulations...

Today, Health Service Journal published:

“Hospitals, particularly in London and the surroun...

My Lords, I will focus on school education in lockdown. Education has had a poor deal during this...

The noble Lord, Lord Robathan, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lord McNally.

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My Lords, when the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, opened the debate, he was slightly apologetic about ...

My Lords, hindsight is a wonderful thing and used wisely I am sure that, with a careful, detailed...

My Lords, I will ask the Minister two slightly uncomfortable questions. First, it is always very ...

My Lords, here in snowy Cumbria we have lately witnessed a massive increase in cases of the new m...

My Lords, it is politically healthy that the UK system has the ability to correct and polish stat...

My Lords, all the measures covered in the SIs we are debating will amount to nothing if we fail t...

My Lords, I make two points—the first on transmission. As the Minister made clear in his introduc...

My Lords, I have two points and a question. On the borders issue, we do not need to get too worke...

My Lords, the rules are clear. Those who can work from home must do so. Businesses must do everyt...

My Lords, we are told that by February we are to return to tiered arrangements geared to a nation...

My Lords, I declare my interest as advising the board of the Dispensing Doctors’ Association, and...

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The noble Lord needs to unmute himself.

Sorry, I did so, and it went back on mute. I beg your pardon. My Lords, I speak again from the hi...

The noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of Cradley, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Moylan...

My Lords, we all look forward to a rapid vaccination of the population and a swift return to norm...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in this debate. The rate of infection is undoubtedly high...

My Lords, these statutory instruments deal with protecting us from the virus—an area where the Go...

My Lords, we should be in no doubt about the seriousness of the current situation, so I have no h...

My Lords, there is no doubt that the appearance of this new variant has taken us into a very diff...

My Lords, I shall focus my brief remarks on the vaccine—the light at the end of this long and ver...

My Lords, as time for scrutiny is so short, I turn to the main area of hope, which is vaccination...

My Lords, once again I congratulate Adam Wagner, the human rights barrister, on analysing and exp...

My Lords, it is absolutely essential that we put the health of our citizens first. The economic i...

My Lords, I agree with noble Lords that this is indeed a sombre time, with the highest rate of in...

My Lords, I believe that these measures are necessary. I welcome the fulsome support of oppositio...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Craig, and I do so with a deg...

My Lords, when vaccines are developed, they go through clinical trials to check on efficacy and a...

My Lords, the four-tier regulations have been overtaken by the England-wide lockdown. Suddenly, f...

My Lords, yet again we are rubber-stamping regulations imposing draconian restrictions aiming to ...

My Lords, many noble Lords have already raised concerns and suggestions about the vaccine roll-ou...

My Lords, I fully support these regulations to ensure that appropriate steps are taken in the rig...

There is huge support out there for the lockdown, although everyone I know is asking, as am I, wh...

I call Lord Bhatia. He is not there. I call Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth.

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My Lords, I thank our NHS and care home staff, who are now in the eye of this storm, for all that...

My Lords, these regulations are, unfortunately, necessary; we are where we are. I wish to make fo...

My Lords, the Minister has outlined the severity of this third wave of coronavirus and, with over...

So, here we are. If the country is weary, I suspect parliamentarians are too. I am trying to work...

My Lords, we are debating today the 59th regulation in a restriction round—quite a colossal numbe...