Covid-19 Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Covid-19 Update

Emma Hardy Excerpts
Wednesday 12th May 2021

(3 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I thank my hon. Friend for pointing out another of the advantages of leaving the European Union. Although we have consulted publicans and brewers on the potential for a differential duty rate on draught beer, we are awaiting the responses from the Treasury, and the Treasury will reply in due course.

Emma Hardy Portrait Emma Hardy (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) (Lab)
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An 11-year-old girl called Mary caught covid in December 2020. Her family used to describe her as bouncing off the walls and full of energy. She loved sport and was excited about starting secondary school in September. Now she is fatigued and lethargic, she walks with a stick and she can only attend school part time. The doctors are baffled because she had no underlying health condition and she seems unable to recover. Please can the Prime Minister help me find for the family the expert advice and support that Mary needs, and provide urgent resources for children suffering with long covid in Hull and East Riding?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I thank the hon. Member for raising the case of Mary, and I am very sorry to hear about her suffering. If the hon. Member would be kind enough to write to me about her I will see what I can do to make sure that we get the right answers from the Government and see what we can do to get her the medical help she needs.